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...Pakistan's likable Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. In him the U.S. recognized a friend; in his country the U.S. recognized an Asian nation steadfast in its resistance to Communism. Unfortunately, just at the climactic moment, Ali had to cut short his trip and hurry home. In Karachi 70 hours later, Mohammed Ali was all but stripped of power...
...envoy abroad from the time of Pakistan's creation until last year. On a brief trip home, to his surprise, he was chosen Prime Minister-partly because he had not been entangled in politics during his six-year absence. He shook hands with hungry Pakistanis on Karachi's streets, earnestly said: "I am one of you, and I will do all my best...
Every Friday at noon from Cairo to Karachi, the thin nasal wail of muezzins crying, "There is no God but Allah," calls the faithful to the salat al-jami, the obligatory Friday service. The devout shutter their shops, rush through a thorough washing, and hurry into the mosque. Clad in dignity and finery, the imam ascends the pulpit, murmurs "salaam alei-kum," recites a text from the Koran, and begins a sermon which rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. So it has been for centuries...
...Karachi, capital of the two-part country (divided by 1,000 miles of Indian territory), Premier Mohammed Ali cried: "Disruptive forces and enemy agents are actively at work" in East Pakistan, "setting Moslem against Moslem, class against class, province against center . . . Huq and his colleagues were not prepared to take the action necessary," therefore we are "taking over administration of the province to save East Pakistan...
West Pakistan newspapers thundered for punitive martial law in the east. But East Pakistan's chief minister, 82-year-old Fazlul Huq, the wily "Lion of Bengal," stomped aboard a plane for Karachi, closeted himself for hours with Premier Mohammed Ali, then stomped out, announcing that his people wanted no less than independence. Said he: "Of course, they [West Pakistan] will try to resist such a move. But when a man wants freedom, he wants...