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...Ayub flew back to Karachi last week,Nehru exploded. "I have never seen such political behavior during my 40 or 50 years of public life," shouted Nehru to a crowd of 200,000 in the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar. Ayub, he said heatedly, "is basically a war-minded soldier. While the United States thought it was providing arms to Pakistan to combat Communism, it is very well known all over the world that Pakistan has military aims against peaceful countries...
...From Karachi, Ayub commented that Nehru's outburst just proved his point: the chief issue causing friction between India and Pakistan is Kashmir. "And it all depends on Mr. Nehru. If he were to see reason, the whole Kashmir problem could be settled easily." At week's end the White House hastily announced that Nehru had been invited to visit Kennedy in November...
Caracas 150 Guatmala City 103 Santiago 95 Teheran 92 Baghdad 92 Montreal 92 Mexico City 91 Paris 90 New Delhi 90 Manila 89 Beirut 86 Bogotá Lima 84 Geneva 82 London 82 Buenos Aires 82 Rome 81 Karachi 81 Istanbul 76 Vienna 75 Rabat 75 The Hague 73 Rio de Janeiro 71 Copenhagen 70 Cairo 62 The U.N.'s survey was based on the experience of its own civil servants, who live on middling but tax-free incomes; thus the figures reflect not the cost of living of native citizens but that of foreigners living on foreign incomes...
Kidnapped. Bashir, meanwhile, had melted back into obscurity among Karachi's 1,000 camel-cart drivers. When the news of Johnson's TV bid reached Pakistan, the Morning News posted a reward for Bashir, spurring a citywide search by Karachians from every walk of life. Bashir and camel were found by two reporters, collecting a load of firewood in a railway yard. The reporters hustled Bashir off to the editorial office of the morning Dawn, where he was feasted, quizzed, and kept virtual prisoner for 14 hours to assure the paper a scoop. Finally...
...sahib [white wife]?" What was worse, the bewildered Bashir heard nothing from anyone in the U.S. about his trip. The reasons: the Digest backed out of sponsoring him; People-to-People was having second thoughts; Johnson's formal invitation unaccountably bogged down in the U.S. embassy in Karachi...