Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role as dictator, Ayub is still no politician; but his willingness to grapple with Pakistan's staggering problems has aroused enthusiasm. A New York Times correspondent notes a new air of "civic virtue" among the rickshaw men, beggars and merchants of Karachi...
...martial law decrees and warnings of austerity will solve little. General Ayub agrees he has not yet faced the causes of Pakistan's "tremendous mess." The first of his problems is the simple fact of the country's poverty, poverty which far surpasses India's. An agricultural country, Pakistan does not feed herself. Her population is expanding so rapidly, through the influx of Moslem refugees from India and through inadequate methods of birth control, that people in Karachi fight over space in the street to lie down at night. While the top wage for a unionized laborer is 60 cents...
...advisors will prove no help to him in making them stick. Already he has found himself obliged to return some of the business of civil administration to the civil service with the announcement that "it is a job for professionals." In short, the self-chosen instrument of reform in Pakistan does not seem...
That many Asians are thinking this way seems borne out by the appearance, across southern Asia, of numerous military dictatorships bearing a similarity to Nasser's. The revolt in Pakistan may be but one example of a more general movement which has touched Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon in recent months, Thailand, Burma and Pakistan in the last weeks, and which may threaten the governments of Malaya and Ceylon...
...power, there is no guarantee that they will do so. Like Mirza's, their authority is revolution. Sympathetic to the West and benign to its own people as General Ayub's government may now appear, Nehru has reminded the United States that it is not accurate to maintain that Pakistan still belongs to the free world...