Word: mohamad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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 the one force for political stability. When Mirza finally pressured Mohamad Ali, a shy and indecisive public servant, into resigning the premiership (TIME, Sept. 17), he knew that he had to replace him with a man more willing to mix in the political free-for-all and more able to involve grass roots support...
Rule of East Pakistan by the Awami League, which wants Pakistan to switch to a neutralist foreign policy, carried unpleasant implications for the U.S., which considers Pakistan its most reliable ally on the Asian continent. It also posed a considerably more immediate threat to Prime Minister Mohamad Ali, 51, the lean financial expert who has led Pakistan's central government for 13 turbulent months. In the last two years Pakistani politicians have taken to switching parties with all the abandon of a woman trying on hats, and it was now almost certain that a number of East Pakistan members...
...Reds in the U.N.; others for the present held back. Eden wanted the Commonwealth to share some of the responsibility for the bases that link it together, and got nowhere. He also explained his troubles with Greece over Cyprus-and got unexpected and able help from Pakistan's Mohamad Ali, who shares the misgivings of the Turks...
...Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S., and not to be confused with the present Prime Minister, whose name is Mohamad...