Word: disruptionist
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Turned up in Pakistan in 1949, broke and all but friendless, was jeered at as a "Spy for India!" and "Disruptionist!" He cockily replied that he meant to be Prime Minister, gradually patched together a shaky coalition of dissident factions, told each what he thought they wanted to hear (including Nehru-type neutralism), won local elections in East Pakistan and recouped his personal prestige. One day last September Suhrawardy was called in by President Iskander Mirza (who more or less runs Pakistan with army and civil-service support), was installed as Premier of what Mirza calls "controlled democracy...
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