Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Desert. Last week Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru flew into Karachi on his first visit in seven years. The occasion: the signing of an Indo-Pakistani water treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign countries...
Stroll in the Garden. In Pakistan the Indus agreement and the presence of Nehru renewed hopes that progress might now be made on the bitterest dispute of all: Kashmir, where since 1949 Indian and Pakistan armies have faced each other across a U.N.-drawn crossfire line. The treaty signing over, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan took his guest to the summer lodge at Murree, overlooking Rudyard Kipling's storied mountain city of Rawalpindi. For two days, as 70-year-old Nehru gradually perked up from the aftereffects of a recent cholera shot and a tooth extraction...
...recommendations for a plebiscite, Nehru replied that the plebiscite would only stir up ''communal feeling"-Nehruese for the probability that Kashmir's predominantly Moslem population, even after 13 years of living under Indian rule, would still vote to join their fellow Moslems in Pakistan...
...bothering him, Nehru flew off to New Delhi to pack for his trip to the U.N. General Assembly this week. Behind him he left a vapor trail of the oldtime Nehru rhetoric. To correspondents he stressed the great similarity in "texture" between the culture of northern India and West Pakistan, with an old Harrow boy's knowledge of English poets quoted Samuel Taylor Coleridge to explain the peculiar persistence of Indian-Pakistani bitterness: "To be wroth with one we love/Doth work like madness in the brain...
Watching him go, President Ayub confided to newsmen that at least he had got Nehru to admit that Kashmir was a "problem." instead of brushing off the Kashmiris' longing for union with Pakistan as a mere "historical memory." Warned Ayub: "All the things achieved in other fields will be nullified if the Kashmir dispute is not solved...