Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story covered everything except suggestions on how to solve the Kashmir problem. One possibility is an arrangement combining the successful coalition government experiences of Lebanon (Moslem-Christian) and Austria (Socialist-Conservative). India and Pakistan would control Kashmir's external affairs jointly; Kashmir would have autonomy under a Hindu-Moslem coalition...
...cost it some support among non-aligned countries. There will be demands for a vast disarmament conference that would include Peking, which the U.S. is not likely to welcome. The future of peace-keeping operations remains unresolved and controversial. To these familiar problems a new one has been added: Pakistan's threat to withdraw from the U.N. if the Kashmir ceasefire is not followed by a plebiscite in the disputed vale-something India is equally adamant in resisting...
...green and gold chamber of the U.N.'s Security Council, the eyes of the diplomats flicked back and forth from the clock on the north wall to the impassioned face of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto. Before him lay the answer to everyone's question: Would it be wider war or tempo rary peace for South Asia? Bhutto waited until the last possible moment before answering...
...minute before 3 a.m. - the deadline - he interrupted a scorching, anti-Indian diatribe, plucked from the stack of papers before him a telegram from Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "In the interests of inter national peace ... I have issued the following order to the Pakistani armed forces: they will stop fighting as from 1205 hours West Pakistan time today...
Claims of Victory. Soon, the guns fell silent along 1,000 miles of battle ground between India and Pakistan. At Pakistani airbases, pilots stepped wear ily from their American-built Sabres and Starfighters. On the Plain of Sialkot, tank-recovery vehicles clanked up to the hulks of shattered Indian and Pakistani armor to drag them off for salvage. In New Delhi and Rawalpindi, Indians and Pakistanis began to count their dead and gild their battles of the last three weeks with claims of victory...