Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan's hot, dusty capital last week, the students of Karachi University were still brooding over the posting of the worst examination results in the school's nine-year history. Fully 80% of the student body had failed one or more courses, and most of the failures were boys. The reason? Girls...
Young men in Moslem Pakistan have a thin time of it. In many parts of the country, women are still kept in purdah, and before marriage Pakistani boys seldom meet a female who is not a close relative. With rare exceptions there is no teen-age dating, there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head...
Limited Underwriter. In what has become something close to a CENTO ritual, Pakistan's Qadir at last week's session urged the U.S. to abandon the fiction that it is not a full member of the pact, and Iran's Eghbal outspokenly demanded more U.S. and British aid. But the U.S. had already pumped $470 million into CENTO's three Middle Eastern members in fiscal 1959. "Clearly, the U.S. cannot underwrite all CENTO economic projects," said Secretary of State Christian Herter. Imperfect as CENTO may be, however, the U.S. could not abandon it without shaking...
...able to fill Nehru in on some of the latest developments within the widening circle of the disenchanted: the U.A.R.'s Nasser was furious over Communist China's support of the Syrian Communist Party and its vocal admiration for Iraq's Premier Kassem; Pakistan was fuming over a set of Chinese maps showing some 6,000 square miles of Pakistani territory as part of China. As for Burma, only three years ago Peking had piously assured the Burmese government that there would never be any question about the Burma-China border. But Chinese maps still claimed huge...
...student showed up to meet his teachers. New York and Arkansas, which require one year of residence for a correspondence-school degree, are little plagued by the problem. In contrast, easygoing Colorado, Delaware and Indiana are hangouts for fake schools with a thriving trade in India, Pakistan, Burma and Egypt...