Word: khans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three months ago, Pakistan's headstrong President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has learned a few lessons in the art of compromise. Last week he headed off a crisis that could have led to further fragmentation of his country. In an important concession to his chief rival, Pathan Community Leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Bhutto announced that he would restore Pakistan to democratic government next August. "The curse of martial law will be buried forever, God willing," he pledged in a radio address...
Earlier in the week, a smiling Bhutto had bounded into the restaurant of the Intercontinental Hotel in Rawalpindi to welcome Wali Khan to the city. After three days of talks, the two men reached an agreement that will ease the strain-at least temporarily-on the tenuous unity of Pakistan's four remaining provinces, including Wali's strongholds of Baluchistan and Northwest Frontier...
...martial law will end on Aug. 14, the 25th anniversary of Pakistan's independence. On that day, the National Assembly that was elected in December 1970-minus, of course, its 169 East Bengali members-will be convened in Islamabad to draft a permanent constitution. In the meantime, Wali Khan's pro-Soviet National Awami Party will form governments in Baluchistan and Northwest Frontier. Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, which has a 96-seat majority in the 145-member Assembly, will run the other two provinces, Punjab and Sind, as well as the central government...
...appointment of Tikka Khan can hardly help but make more difficult any new approach to breakaway Bangladesh, but Bhutto evidently had other priorities in mind. "I cannot allow Pakistan to become incapacitated by actions of certain elements in the country," he declared. "We have the machinery, and an efficacious machinery, if people try to take the law in their own hands." Pakistan, he added, is in "a total crisis, in all spheres...
...President. He promises to lift martial law and restore democracy "well before the end of the year." But in the meantime, he told Correspondent Coggin, "martial law serves as a psychological deterrent to other forms of unrest." Bhutto is thus relying on martial law-and on the tough Tikka Khan-to hold the country together...