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...military government of General Mohammed Ayub Khan last week sent shivers of fear through the officials of the deposed administration. Describing his rule under President Iskander Mirza as "a benign martial law to assist the civil power clean up this mess," the General offhandedly announced that the maximum penalty for concealing food stocks is death. The results were awe-inspiring. Ex-Premier Malik Firoz Khan Noon, said the government, admitted that he was holding 3,000 tons of wheat in his private warehouse. Two other ex-ministers hurriedly told the government that they had wheat hoards of 6,250 tons...
Moving with the assurance of a man who knows his mind (and his power), Pakistan's autocratic, stocky President Iskander Mirza declared martial law throughout the land last week, thus snuffed out whatever life was left in the eleven-year-old democracy which had yet to hold its first nationwide election. In Pakistan itself, there were few mourners...
...Scalawags. Tough, jowly President Iskander Mirza, who once declared himself in favor of "controlled democracy," watched the drift to chaos with mounting disgust. Son of a wealthy Bengal family,*graduate of Britain's Sandhurst, a major general before independence, he had long regarded most politicians as "crooks and scalawags." A Moslem who drinks whisky, smokes, shoots and rides, Mirza has always been blunt about his aristocratic creed: "Democracy requires breeding. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do . . . There has to be someone to prevent the people from destroying themselves...
Along with Mirza, the army's commander in chief, General Mohammed Ayub Khan (another Sandhurst man), had long ago concluded that the army would have to step in. Dressed casually in white cotton slacks, brown loafers, green diamond-pattern socks, the tails of his tan-striped sports shirt hanging out, General Ayub Khan calmly explained: "We both came to the conclusion that the country was going to the dogs ... I said to the President: 'Are you going to act? If you do not, which Heaven forbid, we [the armed forces] shall force a change.' " Mirza waited...
Pakistan's strongman President Iskander Mirza denied that he had ever discussed federation with other nations. In Teheran. Premier Manouchehr Eghbal was more careful: "Iran has no intention of participating in a federation with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the immediate future." Radio Kabul made its answer clear by beating the drum again for an independent "Pakhtoonistan," to include a large slice of West Pakistan...