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...Nations Henry Cabot Lodge had toured India and returned to their countries saying kind words about India's problems. But when the U.S. announced last month that it would lend India a whopping $225 million for its second five-year development program, Pakistan's Prime Minister Malik Firoz Khan Noon erupted...
Submerging their other differences, 45 of the National Assembly's 80 members pledged themselves to support a common ballot, demanded that President Mirza name Republican Party Leader Malik Firoz Khan Noon, a onetime protege of Pakistan's famed Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to form a caretaker government to rule until next year's general elections. If his 45-man majority stands firm and Prime Minister Noon brings about elections next year with a common ballot, Pakistan will have taken a long step along the road to political stability...
President Iskander Mirza was pleased enough at Suhrawardy's fall because the pair are old political enemies; nevertheless, the President asked Suhrawardy to stay on in office until a new government could be formed. The two leading candidates to succeed him: Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon and Finance Minister (and former ambassador to the U.S.) Syed Amjad AH. Both are firmly pro-Western, would not change Pakistan's foreign policy, which includes membership in both the Baghdad Pact and SEATO...
Sudden Outrage. Kashmir is one of the world's plague spots-like Algeria and Cyprus-which can be expected to erupt with violence, or at least violent language, just before a U.N. session opens. Last month Pakistani Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon charged that Russian military aircraft had been allowed to land in Indian Kashmir, and added, "I consider the whole of India to be a Russian air base." India's press countered this attack with the claim that the U.S. Air Force is carrying out a "feverish buildup" in the part of Kashmir held by Pakistan...
...weeks ago, as the target date for adoption of the "Kashmir Constitution" rapidly approached, Pakistani Foreign Minister Malik Firoz Khan Noon appealed to the U.N. to head off Indian annexation of Kashmir. Pakistan, Noon declared, was anxious to see a U.N.-organized plebiscite policed by U.N. troops, but India had repeatedly blocked plebiscite proposals "by insisting on some new condition or raising irrelevant issues." Since 1949, noted Noon, "eleven proposals for settling the differences [have been] put forward. Pakistan accepted each; India rejected every...