Word: khans
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Elite Electorate. If Pakistan was slow to adopt the vote, it was because of the turmoil that has embroiled the nation for all of its 23 years. Until 1958, Parliaments were indirectly elected. After Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan seized power in that year, an elite electorate of village leaders and landowners, eventually numbering 120,000, was selected to choose a National Assembly. Nearly two years ago, Ayub stepped down amidst bloody rioting as Pakistanis demanded basic social reforms such as a popularly elected parliament and an improved educational system...
Army Commander Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan took over and promised a return to democracy as soon as conditions were right. Unlike many another strongman, he apparently means to keep his word. Last week's elections were held to choose delegates to a constitutional convention. When the delegates meet in January, they will have 120 days to draft a document that meets Yahya's approval. If they fail, he will order new elections; if they succeed, they will stay on as members of a 313-seat National Assembly...
...East Pakistan warehouses, but the 40-odd Pakistani army helicopters that could have airlifted them to the delta sat on their pads in West Pakistan. India, the government explained-falsely-would not allow the craft to be ferried over 1,000 miles of its territory. President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan waited a total of 13 days before making a formal visit to the Ganges area to see the toll for himself...
...hate and envy felt by East Pakistan's dark, rice-eating Bengalis for the taller, fairer-and wealthier-wheat-eating Sindhis, Punjabis and Pathans of West Pakistan, the dominant half of the divided Moslem country. Anti-West Pakistan riots among the Bengalis forced ex-President Mohammad Ayub Khan into retirement last year. Successor Yahya, who has scheduled for next week the first general elections since Pakistan won independence 22 years ago, has taken some steps to correct the economic and political imbalance between East and West. But he has a long way to go. In the world...
President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan did not inspect the area until almost a week after a 25-foot tidal wave devastated the islands in the Ganges delta on November 13. The government, dominated by the Punjabis of Western Pakistan, did not have a coordinated program to help the survivors until two weeks later...