Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom to some 230 million of the world's estimated 400 million Moslems, establishing new nations across half the world's girth. From Morocco to Indonesia, the drive of Islam's women toward emancipation has kept pace with the drive of their countries toward independence. In Pakistan, where ten years ago cars were heavily curtained to protect women from the vulgar gaze of men, hundreds of still devout women now drive themselves, unveiled, to work or on their social rounds. In Tunisia, where in 1947 polygamy was accepted practice, a husband landed in jail last April...
...should have it. In Morocco the government has reduced illiteracy an impressive 10% in the two years since independence. In Tunisia's two years as a nation, the number of girls attending schools has increased tenfold. Ten years ago there were only five women's colleges in Pakistan; now there are 25, including medical and law schools. This drive for education has sharply divided generations. Observed one Moroccan educator: "If a girl is 15 and living in the city, chances are she's literate and unveiled; if she's 35, chances are she's veiled...
Chains & Max Factor. One of the most striking victories in the emotional tug of war between the past and the future has taken place in Pakistan, which ten years ago was one of the most feudalistic Moslem areas in the world...
...India decided to launch a second. $10 billion expansion plan. But the expected foreign capital was not available, and costs turned out to be grossly underestimated. With the government forced to cut imports to save foreign exchange, food prices have risen 16% in six months. India's neighbor. Pakistan, is not much better off. Once the breadbasket of undivided India, Pakistan had virtually no industry. In the struggle to industrialize, Pakistan raised industrial output 285% between 1950 and 1955. But so much land was shifted out of wheat into such crops as cotton and jute for export...
While India's and Pakistan's inflation is due to their laudable, if overambitious, efforts to expand their industry. Indonesia can plead no such saving excuse. Indonesia has had a 59% cost-of-living rise since 1953. largely because the government is so intent on exterminating the last vestiges of colonialism that it is likely to destroy every profitable form of enterprise in the process. Indonesia has failed to pass a mining-and-oil-exploration law that would bring in new foreign companies, will offer no assurances against confiscation of new capital. Indonesia's legislature has ordered...