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President Iskander Mirza appears to favor the separate-ballot system because it would automatically ensure a Moslem majority in the government, which, in turn, would automatically ensure his stay in office. His opponents believe the separate ballot will divide the nation permanently into bitter religious factions and lead inevitably to its dissolution. Two months ago Mirza named Moslem League Leader Ismail Chundrigar as Pakistan's sixth Prime Minister, succeeding bouncy Hussein S. Suhrawardy (TIME, Oct. 28). But last week Pakistan's Republican Party rebelled against Chundrigar's proposal for separate-ballot elections, and withdrew its support...
...seven days eager-eyed politicians trooped into the teak-lined office of Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza to bid for the job of Prime Minister, from which he had just evicted Hussein Suhrawardy. None quite measured up to the President's notions. Then, looking no farther than his partner across the bridge table, Strongman Mirza found just the weak-man he wanted: Ismail Ibrahim Chundrigar, 60, a colorless, back-room politician with almost no popular support...
Chundrigar, a devout Moslem lawyer who keeps his wife in purdah, is the leader of the once powerful Moslem League, which had been reduced to near impotence when Mirza drew many of its former supporters into his Republican Party. As Prime Minister, Chundrigar will be dependent on the votes of the Republicans and the will of the President. He will also serve the purpose of keeping out of office Suhrawardy, the only man with a popular following that rivals Mirza...
President Iskander Mirza was pleased enough at Suhrawardy's fall because the pair are old political enemies; nevertheless, the President asked Suhrawardy to stay on in office until a new government could be formed. The two leading candidates to succeed him: Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon and Finance Minister (and former ambassador to the U.S.) Syed Amjad AH. Both are firmly pro-Western, would not change Pakistan's foreign policy, which includes membership in both the Baghdad Pact and SEATO...
...enthusiasm of audiences and critics (said the Times of India: "An experience of a lifetime") made sickness and occasional discomfort seem unimportant. Again and again listeners were astonished that such expertly played music could come from a "provincial" U.S. city. At the Karachi concert, Pakistan President Iskander Mirza was so moved that he asked the orchestra to repeat the Pakistani national anthem. Said a State Department official: "They have done more to impress people with the U.S. than anything that has come out of the U.S. since...