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Last week East Pakistanis no longer even had a government of their own. After two provincial governments collapsed within three days in Dacca, Pakistan's Strongman Iskander Mirza suspended the East Pakistan provincial assembly and imposed direct presidential rule on the province. That meant that 55% of the population of Pakistan were being ruled under autocratic control from the distant national capital...
Divided by Politics. Tucked into a far corner of the subcontinent next to Burma, East Pakistan has little real concern for the issues that seem important to General Mirza's central government. Politicians in the provincial capital of Dacca, where goats wander in the unpaved streets, argue that it makes little sense for Pakistan to spend 70% of its budget on arms when industry so desperately needs capital. East Pakistan inclines more to a neutralist foreign policy, and can see little profit in joining anti-Communist alliances such as the Baghdad Pact (though, if profit is the standard, Pakistan...
Orators and newspapers sang of Moslem brotherhood and the glory of the nation as Pakistan celebrated its second birthday as a republic. Thousands lined Karachi's streets last week to cheer as President Iskander Mirza, surrounded by his bodyguard of Lancers in uniforms of scarlet, green and gold, drove by in his state coach to preside at a parade of Pakistan's military might, backed by contingents from fellow Baghdad Pact Members Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But beneath the brave fagade, Pakistan was a sick and sad nation...
Back to Secrecy. Macmillan was responding not just to domestic pressure but to a mood that had swept a large part of the free world. French Premier Félix Gaillard endorsed the idea. India's Nehru and Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza quickly echoed him. Norway's Premier
Submerging their other differences, 45 of the National Assembly's 80 members pledged themselves to support a common ballot, demanded that President Mirza name Republican Party Leader Malik Firoz Khan Noon, a onetime protege of Pakistan's famed Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to form a caretaker government to rule until next year's general elections. If his 45-man majority stands firm and Prime Minister Noon brings about elections next year with a common ballot, Pakistan will have taken a long step along the road to political stability...