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Roly-poly Prime Minister Nazimuddin of Pakistan was leaving by the 5:30 train. The red carpet had been rolled out through Karachi station, but before Nazimuddin could put foot on it, he was called to the phone: Governor General Ghulam Mohammad had news for him. The news...
...with loss of at least 300 lives (TIME, March 30). There was a budget deficit of some 300 million rupees. To deal with these urgent problems, Governor General Ghulam Mohammad appointed as Prime Minister 44-year-old Mohammed Ali, Pakistan's Ambassador to Washington, who had arrived in Karachi four days earlier to discuss an agreement by which the U.S. may send wheat to feed Pakistan's hungry. It was a popular appointment: having served his country abroad since it was created, he was free from any taint of local intrigue...
...Counter Blow. When news of the Lahore uprising reached Prime Minister Nazimuddin in Karachi, he ordered 44-year-old Major General Mohammed Azam Khan, commander of the military cantonment outside Lahore, to move into the city and regain control. Ten thousand Pakistani troops put the city under martial law. Within six hours the revolution was over. The Red Cross counted 330 dead at first aid stations. Other dead, picked up and buried by relatives, probably raised the death toll to 1,000 or more...
...Begum ordered Bano shackled tightly in the royal bedroom, and was off for a day at the race track. What happened next was related in a Karachi court by the Begum's senior maid. "She came back at 6. Bano was crying, 'Give me water, loosen me!' Her Highness kicked Bano twice and ordered me to bring a cane and with it she beat Bano. Then she turned on me and screamed: 'You daughter of a pig! How dare you look...
...Karachi jail, the Begum got two cells instead of the usual one, furnished them with her own linen, radio and electric fan, and brought a maid, a male servant and two nieces to comfort...