Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...religious violence that has ripped India and Pakistan for months was touched off by a hair trigger. When a brownish bristle from the head of the Prophet Mohammed was stolen from a mosque in Kashmir last December, long dormant hatreds erupted between the Hindus and Moslems. Though the relic was ultimately recovered, anti-Hindu rioting broke out in Kashmir and East Pakistan. When refugees reached near by Calcutta with tales of Moslem terror, the Hindus struck back...
Still recovering from the stroke of last January, Prime Minister Nehru, 74, took to the radio to announce agreement with Pakistan's President Moham med Ayub Khan for a meeting of the two nations' Home Ministers as soon as possible in New Delhi to see how the violence could be halted - the first sign of cooperation between the two countries in a year. Nehru spoke slowly, in a voice that cracked with emotion and was edged with weariness. "This feeling," he said, "is fatal...
Four new field projects of Harvard's Development Advisory Service are off to a "flying start," according to Raymond Vernon, Director of the Development Advisory Service of the Center for International Affairs. With economic advisory teams currently operating in Indonesia, Pakistan, Argentina and Columbia, the Service is now negotiating with the government of Liberia for a new project to begin there this summer...
...fight started depended on whose story you believed. Pakistan claimed that a contingent of Indian troops tried to destroy a forward military outpost on the Pakistani side of the cease-fire line. India maintained that a Pakistani raiding party slipped across the line, ambushed an Indian patrol, and threw the bodies of its victims into a river. In New Delhi, a government official bitterly declared that the Pakistanis probably staged the incident to impress India's other mortal enemy, Red China, whose Premier, Chou Enlai, had been visiting Pakistan. Adding fuel to the flames last week, Chou pledged...
...border guards as it tried to cross the frontier; the original claim of 200 refugees killed in the slaughter was later downgraded to two. The Pakistanis could retort indignantly that 35,000 Moslems in West Bengal had been uprooted from their homes by Indian authorities and deported to East Pakistan as treacherous spies. Even in India, that was an awful lot of spies...