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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...
After thinking it over, Nazimuddin decided that he would not challenge Ghulam Mohammad's "unconstitutional" use of the monarch's prerogative. But he held firm on one point: he would not leave the Prime Minister's residence until someone found him a new house-a difficult task in overcrowded Karachi...
Nazimuddin protested that the Governor General had no right to sack him, and perhaps Nazimuddin had a point. Ghulam Mohammad succeeded to the governor-generalship when Nazimuddin stepped down in 1951. Now that Ghulam Mohammad had the title, however, he was Queen Elizabeth's official representative in the British Dominion of Pakistan and in the theory of British government has the monarch's delegated power to dismiss or appoint ministers and governments (in England, no monarch since the days of George III had dared invoke that power without the sanction of Parliament). Pakistan, however, is a special case...
...country was close to general famine. Hunger riots in the rich Punjab provinces had been put down by the army with loss of at least 300 lives (TIME, March 30). There was a budget deficit of some 300 million rupees. To deal with these urgent problems, Governor General Ghulam Mohammad appointed as Prime Minister 44-year-old Mohammed Ali, Pakistan's Ambassador to Washington, who had arrived in Karachi four days earlier to discuss an agreement by which the U.S. may send wheat to feed Pakistan's hungry. It was a popular appointment: having served his country abroad...