Word: ghulam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down . . . The Constituent Assembly has lost the confidence of the people and can no longer function . . . Elections will be held as early as possible." Meanwhile, Ali would remain in office with a "reconstituted" Cabinet, but real power would reside with the Governor General, a financial wizard of 59 named Ghulam Mohammad...
...Ghulam Mohammad is officially the Pakistani representative of the British Crown (Pakistan remains within the British Commonwealth) ; since Pakistan in its seven years has yet to get itself a Constitution or hold a national election, it is hard to determine where power officially resides. In practice it remains in the hands of a small, powerful group of Moslem leaders who control the tough 250,000-man army, run the everyday life of Pakistan and are chiefly responsible for the nation's stability. Governor General Ghulam Mohammad is one of them. In April 1953 Ghulam Mohammad casually dismissed a roly...
Prime Ministers. Last week, with Ali away, Ghulam Mohammad struck back: he withdrew an order that disqualified four of Ali's most dangerous rivals from holding public office. Several Moslem League leaders, including two members of Ali's Cabinet, chose this moment to gang up on Ali. Ali flew home in a hurry. From Karachi airport Ali moved directly into conference with Ghulam Mohammad. "Reform your Cabinet," ordered Ghulam Mohammad, and Ali had to comply. Until the elections, which would show the U.S. which way its new ally was heading, the Pakistani to watch would be Governor General...
Last week, leaping to conclusions from a Washington meeting between President Eisenhower and Pakistan's Governor General Ghulam Mohammed (who was in the U.S. for medical treatment), India's Jawaharlal Nehru gravely warned the U.S. that a military pact with Pakistan would "have very far-reaching consequences in the whole structure of things in South Asia...
There was bound to be trouble, and the Lion's captors knew it. First, they moved Abdullah close to the Indian border. Then Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, the new pro-Indian Premier, told Kashmiris that independence would turn the state into another Korea. In New Delhi, Nehru's officials lamely claimed that India was told of the arrests only "after they had taken place." (Prince Karan Singh and Bakshi were in India last month for talks with Nehru.) In Kashmir itself, a crowd of the Lion's followers marched on the Prime Minister's residence, cursed...