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...meant to be Prime Minister, gradually patched together a shaky coalition of dissident factions, told each what he thought they wanted to hear (including Nehru-type neutralism), won local elections in East Pakistan and recouped his personal prestige. One day last September Suhrawardy was called in by President Iskander Mirza (who more or less runs Pakistan with army and civil-service support), was installed as Premier of what Mirza calls "controlled democracy...
...squat, dynamic Bengali named Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy retired to his big, rambling house on Karachi's fashionable Clifton Road to await the call that would make him Prime Min ister of Pakistan. The call did not come. In a last minute switch, Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza passed over Suhrawardy in favor of a more malleable candidate, Financial Expert Mohamad Ali. "Mirza is an unscrupulous schemer," cried the outraged Suhrawardy. Vowed Mirza in return: "Suhrawardy will get the premiership only over my dead body...
Last week in the President's home, a very much alive Iskander Mirza swore in 64-year-old Hussein Suhrawardy as Pakistan's fifth Prime Minister since independence, and then, with a broad smile, garlanded him with roses and jasmine...
...sudden friendship, but sheer desperation that led President Mirza to accept Suhrawardy as Prime Minister of the nation accounted to be the staunchest U.S. ally in Asia. Pakistan was in trouble and heading for worse. East Pakistan, with 55% of the country's population, was convulsed by famine compounded by official corruption. Pakistan's much-heralded Five-year plan was already three months old, but because of political bickering, not one of the projects envisioned in it was under way. The once dominant Moslem League Party was fragmented into half a dozen parties and factions, eliminating...
Late last week, protesting bitterly at "the campaign of vilification and slander against me." Ali resigned both the premiership and his membership in the Moslem League. Pakistan President Iskander Mirza, announcing that he wanted time to review the play up to that point, asked Ali to remain on the job temporarily. At week's end Mirza was still deep in review and looking for a ball carrier...