Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pakistan holds the superior moral position in the Kashmir conflict. At minimum, the Security Council resolution for a plebiscite should be upheld, and Moslem Kashmir should probably be included in a Moslem state. Yet American sentiment has swung noticeably toward India in the past few months for reasons which go beyond the simple territorial dispute...
American aid had always been generous to Pakistan, which consequently became the showplace of capitalism in the underdeveloped world. Harvard economists spent their sabbaticals there, billions of dollars were poured in, and by the second five year plan, ended last year, the GNP was growing at over 6 per cent annum. Pakistan also received over two billion dollars in military aid after the she committed herself to the West in 1954 by joining SEATO. The weapons were supposedly to be used only against a possible Russian invasion through the Kyber Pass...
...Pakistan reacted in fear in 1962 when the U.S. shipped India $200 million worth of tanks and planes to prevent the Chinese from nibbling the northeast frontier. Nehru promised that the arms would never be used against Pakistan, but a skirmish in the worthless Rann of Kutch swamplands proved that India would break her vow. The State Department quickly labelled Pakistan as the aggressor and filed the entire matter...
When President Ayub of Pakistan and China's Chou En-lai met on friendly terms at a conference in Algiers last March, Washington did take notice. Ayub did not foresee that the United States would smell defection if he merely talked to China. He believed that his country's solid commitment to capitalism and to the West should allow some latitude in dealing with the Communist world. But almost immediately an infuriated Johnson gave instructions to withhold the $225 million pledge earmarked to launch Pakistan's third five year plan. Johnson also indefinitely cancelled Ayub's visit to Washington...
...first week of August, with the aid pledge still in limbo, Ayub attacked the U.S. in a broadcast for using the funds as a political weapon. He asserted Pakistan's "right to normalize our relations with our neighbors however different our ideologies might be." But Johnson's temper only rose, and finally a frustrated Ayub sent carefully trained guerillas across the cease-fire line into Indian Kashmir. His timing indicates that the United States rather than the United Nations had actually been responsible for maintaining that fragile armistice. When American-Pakistani relations broke down, Ayub could see no point...