Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British, they rather suggest, are above all that. But with rising colored immigration from far-off places, more and more Englishmen find themselves living alongside new neighbors who look frightfully alien. In the first five months of this year, 38,700 immigrants came from the West Indies. India and Pakistan-84% more than the same period last year. There is no legal barrier to immigration from Commonwealth countries. The government, worried by the increase, officially talks of finding a solution "as friendly to these people as we can and not based on color prejudice alone...
...have never seen such political behavior during my 40 or 50 years of public life," shouted Nehru to a crowd of 200,000 in the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar. Ayub, he said heatedly, "is basically a war-minded soldier. While the United States thought it was providing arms to Pakistan to combat Communism, it is very well known all over the world that Pakistan has military aims against peaceful countries...
...missiles, Nehru sniffed that Ayub had better think twice before attacking India. "A country which is economically strong can always defend itself against any military might." explained Nehru with more vehemence than logic, "and a few fighter aircraft received from the U.S. after adopting blackmailing tactics will not help Pakistan, which has made very little economic progress since...
...Kashmir, Nehru roared, "there can be no question of a plebiscite. Talk of a plebiscite has now become a joke." Furthermore, he said, Kashmir was just a Pakistani ploy to divert attention from its failure to improve the lot of its people: "Even if there were no Kashmir question, Pakistan would create some other issue to keep this hate campaign against India going...
From Karachi, Ayub commented that Nehru's outburst just proved his point: the chief issue causing friction between India and Pakistan is Kashmir. "And it all depends on Mr. Nehru. If he were to see reason, the whole Kashmir problem could be settled easily." At week's end the White House hastily announced that Nehru had been invited to visit Kennedy in November...