Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru's overambitious industrialization schemes and gave top priority to increasing farm output. He halted the bloody language riots in the south by indefinitely shelving the law establishing Hindi as the sole official tongue. "We must seek the middle way," he declared. In fact, only in relations with Pakistan did Shastri take a hard line. When Ayub forced India's hand over Kashmir, the little Prime Minister responded with the might of his military...
...hard line with Pakistan that led him ultimately to the Russian city of Tashkent, where, at the invitation of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, he met with Pakistan's President Ayub Khan for peace talks to settle the border war. At first the conference stalled on the very issue over which the two nations had warred: Kashmir. The impasse was finally broken by Kosygin, who persuaded the two men to skirt Kashmir and try to settle other problems. It was a considerable diplomatic triumph for Moscow and a major victory for Shastri. Without retreating on Kashmir, he negotiated an agreement...
...takes all day Sunday off. Many Moslems and Hindus in Malaysia are now accustomed to paying visits to mosques and temples on Sunday-not because it has any religious significance to them but simply because urban businesses are closed. The British heritage of Sunday off prevails in India and Pakistan. Japan, which until 1876 used the Chinese lunar calendar with no uniformity of holidays, shifted that year to the seven-day week with Sundays off. Buddhists and Shintoists readily accepted the change, although many businesses ignored it until a 1947 labor-standard law required that workers...
Shastri had been in Tashkent since Jan. 2 at the invitation of Soviet Premier Alexel N. Kosygin to discuss peace between India and Pakistan. Although the pact signed yesterday did not settle the main issue, possession of Pakistan, Shastri and Ayub agreed to start withdrawing troops from each others' soil and to work for peace...
...described Shastri as "a friendly, warm, attractive" man "with a great deal of determination." Under Shastri's successor, Galbraith predicted, there will be "a very high degree of continuity in India's relations with China, Russia, Pakistan, and the United States...