Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cease-fire between India and Pakistan last week passed into its sixth tense week with not the slightest prospect for a settlement. Indeed, if words were any measure, the situation was worse. Rising before the U.N. Security Council, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto charged India with conducting a reign of terror in Kashmir, quoting a Kashmiri as having told the press: "Indian troops have cut off the breasts of our girls and held them up saying, 'Here is your Pakistan!'" With that, India's white-turbaned Foreign Minister Swaran Singh led his delegation...
Nehru told his audience in the Lowell House Junior Common Room that the India-Pakistan dispute was the result of a Pakistani "psychosis" -- an irrational fear of a larger and more advanced India...
...American pro-India policy would indicate blindness to the larger issues involved. Pakistan behaved nicely while her infant economy remained in the cradle, but now that she has grown and seeks regional markets, she finds trade with many of her Asian neighbors proscribed by U.S. edict. Although a charter member of SEATO, she finds American troops pouring into Southeast Asia without her consultation or approval. Worst of all, she finds herself dependent upon an annual AID dole which may be snatched away if she does the slightest thing naughty. Pakistan thus represents the case of the fledgling country brought...
...million pledge would help solve the immediate problem. But a re-evaluation of our entire Asia policy which recognizes the Chinese presence, and allows increased autonomy to countries such as Pakistan will alone prevent further ruptures of this nature. Diplomatic notes expressing such flexibility might make the Pakistanis more amenable to a compromise in Kashmir...
...Delhi to accept a plebiscite would be best in the long run. Shastri could offer to hold the plebiscite as a victor's magnanimous concession to the Security Council resolution. As a first step India could at least concede an adequate U.N. border guard. A properly treated Pakistan would not likely attack again, and the dispute could easily grow cold...