Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME ASIA 90,000-100,000 East Asia 50,000-60,000 Southeast Asia 35,000-45,000 Japan 9,000-11,000 Phillipines 11,000-13,000 India-Pakistan 30,000-40,000 India...
...Karachi last week, a long motorcade streamed through the streets in celebration of Mohammed Ayub Khan's election as President of Pakistan. It was no small thing. Truckloads of Ayub supporters waved at the cheering crowds; auto-rickshas carried still more. In the rear were hundreds of wiry, turbaned Pathans from Ayub's own frontier district, who brandished clubs and joyfully fired homemade pistols...
...sorry beginning for Pakistan's first try at democracy since 1958, when Ayub Khan seized power in a military coup d'état. Under his benign but dictatorial eye, a new form of in direct democracy was conceived. The nation's voters last November elected 80,000 "basic democrats" who last week cast their ballots for a President...
Most legal groups in Pakistan have come out for Miss Jinnah, and were denounced by Ayub as "mischiefmongers." In reply, the Karachi Bar Association overwhelmingly adopted a resolution urging "the party in power to get rid of the notion that wisdom, righteousness and patriotism are the monopoly of their yes men." The usually complaisant newspaper editors defied the regime's attempts to make them endorse a restrictive new press...
Running Scared. Actually, Ayub has been a reluctant and benevolent dictator, who has vastly improved the stability of a country that was paralyzed by squabbling politicians before he took over. Considering Pakistan's backwardness and poverty, the Ayub-designed electoral system is not half bad, giving the vote to 80,000 middle-and upper-class electors. While that is a tiny percentage in a total population of 110 million, most of those millions are not only illiterate but totally ignorant of political issues. With heavy support in rural areas, where many Moslem electors particularly disapprove of a woman...