Word: ghulam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan's efficient new strongman leadership tightened its control of the nation last week. Governor General Ghulam Mo hammed (who dissolved Parliament last month) proposed that West Pakistan's four provinces and ten princely states be swept aside, that there should henceforth be one unified West Pakistan (pop. 33.5 million), to set beside the single state of East Pakistan (pop. 42 million). His proposal was endorsed by the army's powerful Major General Iskander Mirza; civil servants are already drawing up the changes "that will be necessary." Premier Mohammed Ali (who retains his office by courtesy...
Interview in the Palace. Twenty minutes later, Mohammed Ali stood before the Governor General, 59-year-old Ghulam Mohammed, a big rugged man who derives his powers-in the absence of a Pakistan constitution-from the British crown, which appointed him. Beside the Governor General stood the strongman of the Pakistan army, Major General Iskander Mirza. "I am dissolving the Constituent Assembly tomorrow," announced Ghulam to the Prime Minister. "You will remain Prime Minister, but you will reform your Cabinet. Major General Mirza will be your Minister of the Interior. General Ayub Khan will become Defense Minister as well...
...friends. "Now I know how Farouk felt when the British put tanks around his palace," he said. "I've been insulted. I've been humiliated, I'll have my revenge one day." But Ali was beaten, and he knew it. Casually next evening, handsome Ghulam relaxed at a private showing of a movie called Love in Venice. (He is also an ardent Marilyn Monroe fan.) Thus, last week, a new regime was established in Asia...
...Control of Democracy." Taking over as governor of East Pakistan, Sandhurst-trained General Mirza uncovered some graft that implicated several local leaders of the Moslem League. Mirza took the evidence to Governor General Ghulam Mohammed. Scared East Pakistan politicos turned to Prime Minister Ali, who comes from East Pakistan himself. In the name of democracy, the politicos persuaded Ali to ram a bill through the Constituent Assembly that would limit the Governor General's powers-e.g., the right to fire corrupt officials, the right to relieve Prime Ministers. Ghulam, who had appointed Ali in the first place, invited...
Pakistan's new rulers were as strongly pro-U.S. as Ali, so Washington seemed as calm as Karachi. And as for Ali, now a figurehead Prime Minister, he finally called in reporters and said he was loyal to Ghulam. What would he do next? "I must gaze into a crystal I brought back from the U.S.," said Mohammed Ali, producing a miniature eight ball...