Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karachi, Pakistan...
...shaved, so just tell them to lay out the tails and white tie." He made it to the Mayflower Hotel affair almost on time, looking fresh, with an optimistic reply to the question on everyone's mind. Passing Nixon in the reception line, Pakistan's Ambassador Mohammed AH asked about President Eisenhower. "Much better," said Nixon. "I saw him today. The King saw him, too. He's much better...
...exports would prosper and earn more foreign exchange. They have not. In London last week there were whole warehouses full of unsold Indian tea. Increasing competition from Japan has prevented any significant increase in foreign sales of Indian cotton goods. The jute industry, faced with competition from Indonesia and Pakistan, is so deep in the doldrums that more than 10% of India's looms are being held idle in an attempt to maintain world jute prices...
...designed primarily to deal with trouble or brush-fire rebellions in such oil-rich domains as Bahrein and Kuwait or in the string of other British protectorates to whose defense Britain is committed by treaty. An attack on Britain's Baghdad Pact allies-Turkey, Iran. Iraq and Pakistan-would require a far wider response than Aden could provide...
...surrounding areas grabbed unveiled women, shaved their heads and spat upon them. Shocked by these indignities, a group of progressive army officers began using their own unveiled wives and daughters as decoys to catch the fanatics. Begum Khatidja G.A. Khan is Deputy Minister for Social Services in West Pakistan. Says she: "The mullahs cannot make time stand still. We must be affected by the changing world." Said a Karachi newspaperman last week. "The Pakistani male has had it-from all four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed Ali took a second wife, irate women stoned his car. Throughout...