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There were one or two mutters of dissent. Several hundred college students in Karachi broke classes and demonstrated. Some provincial-minded officials wanted assurances that the government jobs in their provinces would continue to go .to the locals. But the regime has already installed its men as governors of the four West Pakistan provinces, and they will cooperate in the provincial dissolution. The princely rulers-including the Khan of Kalat, the Wali of Swat and the Jam Saheb of Las Bella-noting the direction of the wind, obediently consented that their states should be wiped...
...crucial decision took place the night Prime Minister Mohammed Ali, alarmed by threats to his power, returned from Washington with $105 million in U.S. economic aid. Ali's plane touched down at Karachi's airfield, where soldiers in battledress were drawn up, ostensibly to honor him. A crowd of perhaps 5,000 people had gathered, and to them Ali made a brief speech on his success with the Americans. "How about the crisis?" a reporter intervened. "What crisis?" answered Mohammed Ali with a grin...
...wheat, speak Punjabi or Urdu, and supply most of the tough manpower for Pakistan's 250,000-man army and for its permanent civil service. East Pakistan is lush and Southeast Asian: its people eat rice, speak Bengali, and complain that they do not have the influence at Karachi to which their preponderant numbers entitle them. In local elections last March, the East Pakistanis rejected the national Moslem League leadership so thoroughly that the newly elected officials were thrust aside and military rule was imposed from Karachi...
Pakistan's new rulers were as strongly pro-U.S. as Ali, so Washington seemed as calm as Karachi. And as for Ali, now a figurehead Prime Minister, he finally called in reporters and said he was loyal to Ghulam. What would he do next? "I must gaze into a crystal I brought back from the U.S.," said Mohammed Ali, producing a miniature eight ball...
...Ghulam Mohammad struck back: he withdrew an order that disqualified four of Ali's most dangerous rivals from holding public office. Several Moslem League leaders, including two members of Ali's Cabinet, chose this moment to gang up on Ali. Ali flew home in a hurry. From Karachi airport Ali moved directly into conference with Ghulam Mohammad. "Reform your Cabinet," ordered Ghulam Mohammad, and Ali had to comply. Until the elections, which would show the U.S. which way its new ally was heading, the Pakistani to watch would be Governor General Ghulam Mohammad...