Word: khans
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...hard line with Pakistan that led him ultimately to the Russian city of Tashkent, where, at the invitation of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, he met with Pakistan's President Ayub Khan for peace talks to settle the border war. At first the conference stalled on the very issue over which the two nations had warred: Kashmir. The impasse was finally broken by Kosygin, who persuaded the two men to skirt Kashmir and try to settle other problems. It was a considerable diplomatic triumph for Moscow and a major victory for Shastri. Without retreating on Kashmir, he negotiated an agreement...
...envoys. But America's allies and much of the nonaligned world clearly were impressed. Indian Prime Minister Shastri indicated to Harriman he would convey the American message to Russia's Kosygin-and did so as soon as he reached Tashkent for his peace talks with Ayub Khan. The Japanese, despite considerable reservations about the growing scope of the war, greeted Harriman warmly as shin-yo aru hikeshi otoko-"the trustworthy man who puts out fires." Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina goes to Moscow this week to sign Russo-Japanese air and trade agreements, and, he, too, promised to urge...
Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India died of a heart attack last night in Tashkent, U.S.S.R., hours after signing a limited agreement on Kashmir with Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan...
Mayors everywhere are expected to be boosters, and Tashkent's Hunuddin Asamov is no exception. Last week he was busy extolling the tourist virtues of his ancient city in Soviet Central Asia to a pair of wary travelers: Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri. "We have planted parks and gardens, over 2,000,000 trees, 1,500,000 shrubs and 80 million flowers," wrote Asamov in an open letter. "Moreover, we Uzbeks have a saying: If two neighbors have an argument, go to the third, and you will always...
Born in Punjab India, Nayar began playing squash seven years ago at the Cricket Club of India. In 1964 he entered the national and junior championships and won both of them. During the summer of 1965 he toured England with his coach, Yusuf Khan. He became junior champion of the British Commonwealth when he won the Drysdale cup, the most coveted squash award for 19-year-olds in the world...