Word: liaquat
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...town of Rawalpindi, on the precarious frontier where India and Pakistan contend for the rich prize of Kashmir, an assassin's bullets rang out this week. They hit and fatally wounded Liaquat Ali Khan, 56, the chubby, able and moderate Prime Minister of Pakistan as he was making a speech to a crowded meeting. His assassin, a Moslem fanatic of a sect which favors holy war against India, was reportedly "torn to pieces" by the crowd...
...assassination of Premier Liaquat All Khan by a Moslem fanatic will probably not affect Pakistan's favorable relations with Western powers, two faculty experts agreed last night...
...Premier Liaquat Ali Khan's announcement was tense: "A conspiracy hatched by the enemies of Pakistan has just been unearthed. The aim of the conspiracy was to create commotion in the country by violent means . . . These plans, had they succeeded, would have struck at the very foundations of our national existence...
Akbar's conspiracy was no joking matter. Although Premier Liaquat refused further comment, Defense Ministry officials hinted at an explanation: Faiz, who is also a leader of the pro-Communist Azad Pakistan Party, and the two officers had planned to stage a military revolt, aiming at a pro-Communist dictatorship...
Then the mediators had suggested a local force recruited from Kashmir's own people under a U.N. command. Said Liaquat: "I accepted that proposal. Mr. Nehru rejected...