Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asia's own cold war-between Pakistan and India-last week unexpectedly showed signs of thawing. The Kashmir issue still divides the two countries, but their quarrel over dividing the canal waters of the Indus Basin (TIME, June 1) seems to be heading for amicable settlement. At first, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had hard words for the government of Pakistan's General Mohammed Ayub Khan ("a naked military dictatorship"). But Ayub's incorruptibility, his undeniable popularity, and his own sensible willingness to patch things up with India has done a lot to diminish the enmities that grew...
...week's end word came that General Ayub, in flying the 1,000 miles across India that divides West and East Pakistan, will make what is officially described as a "fuel stop" at the Indian capital of New Delhi on Sept. 1, and will have time enough for a chat with India's Nehru, the first meeting of the two heads of state. One item that may well be discussed: General Ayub's suggestion last spring that Pakistan and India get together for the joint defense of the Indian subcontinent, an idea that Nehru-confronted with...
...Quetta (pop. 84.000 humans, 20,000 camels), a thriving West Pakistan trade center 536 rugged miles north of Karachi, the crimson pomegranates-cbme big as softballs, and the government train arrives sporadically in a hiss of steam with stale copies of daily newspapers from Karachi and Lahore. These imports enjoy only a languid sale in the bazaar, for Quettans, with a literacy rate of 10.3%, are not the reading sort. Several misguided publishers have tried to give Quetta a daily newspaper of its own; the most successful of these lasted only 18 issues. Quettans get along with a bizarre medley...
...this might have endured forever had not West Pakistan's Governor Akhtar Husain paid a visit to Quetta and looked around in vain for a daily paper. For his embarrassed hosts, who laid out Quetta's nine weeklies as a substitute, Husain had a proposal beautiful in its simplicity: "Why not come out on different days of the week so that Quetta has a fresh paper every...
With some official encouragement-a government grant of 1,200 rupees a month, plus daily transcripts of Radio Pakistan news-seven of Quetta's publishers agreed to try. Soon they were producing Quetta's first homespun daily, which had seven names: Tanzim (Order), Kohsar (Mountain), Bagh-o-Bahar (Garden in Spring), Qand (Sweetness), Nara-e-Haq (Voice of Truth), Zamana (Times) and Sadaqat (Righteousness). Last week they laid bold plans to float a bigger government loan, hire a pool reporter and three stencil cutters, organize group circulation and sales crews. Observing from afar, Governor Husain sent congratulations: "Bound...