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...evidence of the lengths to which India is prepared to go to keep Kashmir, Indian Puppet Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed and his followers last week succeeded in winning a majority of seats in the Kashmir legislature three weeks before a single vote could be cast. (The new legislators, explained the pro-Indian state election committee, had either been unopposed or opposed only by citizens whose nomination papers unfortunately proved invalid...
...airport, announced: "I am deeply pained by this . . . But may I point out that the Kashmir Constituent Assembly has finished its work, dissolves itself tonight and disappears . . . The position remains as it is now." A few hours later, in the Kashmiri capital of Jammu. Puppet Premier Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammed formally proclaimed adoption of the constitution joining Kashmir to India-and in the process, gave the clearest statement yet of Jawa harlal Nehru's attitude toward the U.N.: "We are not bound by resolutions which are against our country and our interest...
...Died. Ghulam Mohammed, 61, frail ex-Governor General of Pakistan (1951-55), who, as its first Finance Minister, buttressed his country's shaky economy, allied it with the U.S., was named Governor General and became the strongman of Pakistan; of a heart attack; in Karachi, Pakistan...
Nine months ago Her Majesty's Governor General Ghulam Mohammed, 59, faced with unrest and growing opposition, took it on himself to reduce amiable Premier Mohammed Ali to the stature of a front man and began to rule with a set of decrees which the Pakistan High Court has since challenged. But wanting to be strong, Ghulam Mohammed found his own body weak. Paralyzed by a series of strokes, and unable to speak clearly, last week he agreed to step down from the governor generalship...
Pakistan is run by a leadership which professes democracy but feels dragged toward dictatorship. Eight months ago, faced with public resentment against the ruling Moslem League, Governor General Ghulam Mohammed dissolved the Constituent Assembly and took over power for himself. Last month he called on the six provincial legislatures to elect representatives to a new Assembly. The result last week: a heavy defeat for the Moslem League...