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...Moslems as well as Jews, the war had religious overtones. It came during Ramadan, the holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting when, it is said, warriors who die in a jihad go immediately to heaven. In Cairo, Moslem scholars formally declared the fight a holy...
...political conversation, and the Egyptian leader, after a few days of rest near Alexandria with his handsome wife Gehan, complied. Gaddafi's idea was that, with the Russians out of Egypt, the two Arab nations could finally consummate "a full and complete revolutionary merger" and presumably launch a jihad, or holy war, against Israel. Sadat wants neither another losing war nor competition for power from a would-be Nasser like Gaddafi; he shrewdly persuaded Gaddafi to establish for now a "unified political command" which will spend at least 13 months studying the military, monetary, judicial and economic problems involved...
President Yahya Khan had declared the conflict a jihad (holy war) and, even while surrender was being signed in the East, he was boasting that his nation would "engage the aggressor on all fronts." He became the first political victim of the conflict. At week's end, Yahya announced that he would step down in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, head of the Pakistan People's Party. A rabid anti-India, pro-China politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of former President Ayub Khan, Bhutto was the chief architect of Pakistan...
...week long, meanwhile, the Pakistani regime kept up a running drumfire about Pakistan's jihad, or holy war, with India. An army colonel insisted there were no Pakistani losses whatsoever on the battlefield. His reasoning: "In the pursuit of jihad, nobody dies. He lives forever." Pakistan radio and television blared forth patriotic songs such as All of Pakistan Is Wide Awake and The Martyr's Blood Will Not Go Wasted. The propaganda was accompanied by a totally unrealistic picture of the war. At one point, government spokesmen claimed that Pakistan had knocked out 123 Indian aircraft to a loss...
...Delhi, Yahya's charges of Indian collusion were seen as a buildup for a jihad, a Moslem holy war, against predominantly Hindu India. New Delhi is also concerned over Yahya's casual declaration during a recent interview that Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the Awami League leader now awaiting trial for treason, "might not be alive" by October. Last week 467 members of India's Parliament sent an appeal to U Thant to secure Mujib's release...