Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first days of independence, extremist Moslem traditionalists in Lahore and surrounding areas grabbed unveiled women, shaved their heads and spat upon them. Shocked by these indignities, a group of progressive army officers began using their own unveiled wives and daughters as decoys to catch the fanatics. Begum Khatidja G.A. Khan is Deputy Minister for Social Services in West Pakistan. Says she: "The mullahs cannot make time stand still. We must be affected by the changing world." Said a Karachi newspaperman last week. "The Pakistani male has had it-from all four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed...
...tall handsome youth raced through the rain at London Airport to a waiting plane. With His Highness Prince Karim, fourth Ago Khan, 20, and 49th Imam of the world's Ismaili Moslems, was his father, Prince Aly Khan, bypassed by the late Aga in deciding his successor. Two days later in the African city of Dar Es Salaam in Tanganyika, on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, Aga Khan IV was acclaimed in the first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia...
President Iskander Mirza was pleased enough at Suhrawardy's fall because the pair are old political enemies; nevertheless, the President asked Suhrawardy to stay on in office until a new government could be formed. The two leading candidates to succeed him: Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon and Finance Minister (and former ambassador to the U.S.) Syed Amjad AH. Both are firmly pro-Western, would not change Pakistan's foreign policy, which includes membership in both the Baghdad Pact and SEATO...
...fight against Ghengis Khan. I said that Nanook had to organize a cavalry to meet Ghengis Khan's horsemen. His army rounded up a herd of polar bears and harnessed them to carts. Some of the girls were pretty skeptical about this, so I told them how hard it was to train polar bears. 'Once they got going, though,' I said, 'all hell couldn't stop them...
...girls had been to high school and they knew Ghengis Khan hadn't been defeated by a bunch of Eskimos, so I had to figure out a way for Nanook to lose the battle. 'Well,' I'd tell them, 'You know how much dust there is in China. Nanook's army just couldn't take it and they all got tuberculosis. It was a terrible slaughter from which the Eskimo civilization never recovered.' This satisfied most of them and when I mentioned the names of one or two professors working on the translation they practically worshipped me. Intellectually, you might...