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...last year a squat, dynamic Bengali named Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy retired to his big, rambling house on Karachi's fashionable Clifton Road to await the call that would make him Prime Min ister of Pakistan. The call did not come. In a last minute switch, Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza passed over Suhrawardy in favor of a more malleable candidate, Financial Expert Mohamad Ali. "Mirza is an unscrupulous schemer," cried the outraged Suhrawardy. Vowed Mirza in return: "Suhrawardy will get the premiership only over my dead body...
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...
...bitter enemy, Moslem Pakistan. Nehru is, therefore, almost as anxious as Eden to ensure that Egypt does not win unfettered control of the canal. But unlike Eden, Nehru wants no overthrow of Nasser. Nasser, unique among Moslem leaders, is on better terms with New Delhi than with Karachi. Nehru's solution: public denunciation of Britain and France, accompanied by a quiet word to the British that he has refrained from criticizing Nasser because "condemnation at this point would have impaired our ability to influence the Egyptians...
...RAHIM KHAN Karachi, Pakistan
...Karachi last week U.S. Vice President Nixon bluntly warned that any country that takes Soviet economic aid on the supposition that it is without strings is likely to wind up with "a rope tied around its neck." But he went on to declare that U.S. aid to such countries might help them maintain their independence of Russia. A Pakistani official translated it this way to New York Times Correspondent Abe Rosenthal: "Mr. Nixon says Soviet aid will make you a satellite. Then he says we will keep on giving you money if you take aid from the Russians...