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...Munawarr Jehan Begum, senior wife of the exiled Nawab of Junagadh, was being washed and dressed by three timorous maids in her Karachi mansion one Sunday morning last year. Suddenly Her Highness' jowls began to quiver. Someone, she screamed, had usurped the royal privy. The culprit proved to be 13-year-old Bano, a scared little peasant-born maid...
...Seeds of War. Cabled TIME Correspondent Joe David Brown from Karachi...
Starting from Scratch. When the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the patron saint of Pakistan, arrived in Karachi in 1947 to set up the Moslem state for which he had labored so long, he started from scratch. In the government buildings there was nothing but bare walls and a few rickety tables-no chairs, no typewriters, no files or filing system. Telephones were luxuries, and at first government orders were passed back and forth on scraps of paper; there were no bookkeepers, stenographers or clerks, for the simple reason that, in British India, Moslems were fighters and farmers but never office...
...months ago, the datelines read Teheran, Cairo, Bagdad. Last week the news was the same-riots, Reds, wreckings-but the place was new: Karachi (pop. 360,000), capital city of newborn Pakistan...
...third morning, the Red-led mob swarmed out of Karachi's slums and back alleys; there was now hardly a student in sight, not a word about student grievances. Up & down the streets the mob surged, bearing a gory bundle, the lifeless, shell-torn body of a teen-age boy. "Close down," rioters yelled. "Observe hartal [the strike]." Frantically, shopkeepers shuttered up. The mob went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters...