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...East Pakistanis maintain that they are essentially a colony controlled by the central government in Karachi, West Pakistan. The army is 90 per cent West Pakistani and West Pakistan gets 70 per cent of the foreign aid the country receives...
...Kennedy involved a good deal of attention, and he is quite right."). But the best parts involve his never-ending feud with his superiors in Foggy Bottom. Wrote Galbraith in 1961, as tensions were rising between India and Pakistan: "One of our carriers brought twelve supersonic jets to Karachi, where they were unloaded in all the secrecy that would attend mass sodomy on the BMT at rush hour." On Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "He is so firmly fixed in my mind as a cautious, self-constricted man that I delight in actions that will disturb him." Concludes Galbraith...
...West Pakistan, a wave of wildcat strikes continued to sweep the cities, as groups of workers, ranging from doctors to Karachi dockworkers, released the grievances pent up by a decade's prohibition of strikes; on one day last week, 2,500,000 employees walked off their jobs. Some invoked gherao, a tactic borrowed from India in which workers barricade employers in their offices until wage demands are met. Since the government had set the pace by awarding civil servants an $80 million pay raise, it might be some time before the labor unrest could be quelled...
...army troops with automatic weapons confronted demonstrators who shrilled: "Rise! Rise!" Scores were injured by bayonets and flying lathis, the steel-tipped bamboo sticks used by the police, and attempts at curfews proved useless. But when Ayub's message flashed across the country, the mood altered instantly. In Karachi and other cities, crowds poured into the streets to dance in jubilation at the news. In Rawalpindi, a candlelight procession took place...
...high insurance coverage did not result from Israeli-Arab tensions, but from the brief Indo-Pakistani war in 1965. "At that time," says Sheikh Najib Alamuddin, MEA's president, "our aircraft served both Karachi and Bombay, and we decided to cover our fleet with complete war-risk insurance. Thank goodness we've continued to maintain those policies...