Word: pakistan
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Cognac for Breakfast. The line now covers 12 countries in the Middle East, has also extended its routes beyond the Arab countries to London and Paris, Liberia and the Ivory Coast and east to India and Pakistan. Eventually, Alamuddin hopes, it will become the nucleus of a Pan-Arab airline. It carries 350,000 passengers annually, has helped to push
Food & Factories. Even more alarming to the economists is the fact that population is growing five times as fast as food production in Asia. The output of food is actually dropping in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Korea, Iran and Nepal. The average Asian eats little more than he did in 1939, and hunger is a constant gnawing companion of about one in four. At present rates, food output in the area will rise only 5% during the next decade, but the U.N. figures that it must increase about 60% if Asians are to eat enough...
Every Friday morning, Pakistan International Airlines flight 750, a Boeing 720 jet, takes off from Dacca in East Pakistan and heads for Shanghai-the only major flight by a non-Communist airline into Red China. PIA has been making the run for three months, charging $428 for economy class round trip, and so profitable has it turned out to be that the airline is adding a second weekly flight. The Chinese Communists are using the Pakistani planes to open the door, at least a tantalizing crack, to Western business and tourist dollars...
Erfan Ahmed of Burmeh-Shell Oil Company in Pakistan discounted any particular Islamic approach to economics, observing that economic development was "theologically neutral." He said Pakistan, an extremely poor country, is beseiged by the same problems and is aimng at the same goals as other undeveloped countries. Islam may give strength to the cause of educating the illiterate and of insuring the population against poverty, but it is not going to ease the uphill struggle, he said...
...years since the end of the British Raj, the Indian subcontinent has repeatedly echoed to the thunder of populations on the move. More than 17 million Hindus and Moslems fled across the borders of India and Pakistan in the wake of partition and religious strife in 1947. Since last January, 900,000 more have poured over the frontiers to escape a new wave of religious persecution. Last week still another mass migration was underway as thousands of India's newest dispossessed flocked home from neighboring Burma...