Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslems. The Ahmadiyas are a close-knit and unpopular group, followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who at the turn of the century declared himself a Nabi, or prophet of Allah. There was politics in the mullahs' demands, because Pakistan's Foreign Minister, able, bearded Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, is an Ahmadiya.* The Ahraris' mullahs demanded his removal. When the government refused, the mullahs began stirring up trouble, particularly in Lahore, where there are many Ahmadiyas. Craftily they timed their protest to occur before the new season's crops were harvested, when people were hungry...
...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...
...critic. The column's I-studded name-dropping led one magazine to run a contest on how Swaffer would start his column if Press Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere were killed simultaneously in an accident. The winning lead:" 'Why is everybody so quiet tonight?' said the Aga Khan as we went into supper at the Savoy. I told...
...tyrant of history, neither khan nor caesar nor czar, amassed power so vast or so absolute. Greater than Peter the Great, he extended Russia's empire over a fourth of the globe and its shadow over the rest. More terrible than Ivan the Terrible, he enslaved millions in the name of freedom and sent millions to death in the name of improvement of the state. No corner of the world was safe from his ambition or secure from his intrigue. His word was gospel, his will law. He repealed truth and denied God. For millions, he was the infallible...
...Mongol Empire, by Michael Praw-din. First U.S. publication of a classic history of Genghis Khan and his successors; originally (1938) published in German (TIME...