Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wives an inspired instinct for the stinging epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
...today, India's state-owned radio uses Bharat in Hindi-language programs, but, as one Indian put it, "It is one thing to hear a Hindi-speaking news reader say 'Bharat,' and another to have it leap up at you in print in an English-language Pakistani newspaper...
...Pakistani twist to the word implies that India is a nation centered on a faith, just as Pakistan is, and that neither has a right to the word-India-that both used to share. Pakistani editors practiced Bharatism so zealously, automatically changing the word India every time it turned up, that they would, for example, misquote President Eisenhower as referring to Nehru as the "Prime Minister of 'Bharat.' " The results often got ludicrous. When Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy visited the U.S. as Pakistan Prime Minister two years ago, Pakistani readers learned that he had been presented with a "Bharati...
...member of CENTO. He is the first leader of Pakistan to make a determined effort to improve relations with India. The problem of the canal waters of the Indus basin is nearing settlement (TIME, June 1). After twelve years of border conflict in Kashmir, an Indian and a Pakistani commission last week concluded talks that may put this problem to rest. Half a year ago, Nehru and most Indians still spoke contemptuously of the "naked military dictatorship" in Pakistan. Today Indians are increasingly aware that social and economic evils still festering in India under their civilian leader have been successfully...
Last week, as Pakistani educators cast about for ways to solve the sex crisis at Karachi U., one college head imposed a 5-rupee ($1.05) fine on boys and girls caught talking to each other; by week's end he had collected 100 rupees. Most male students, however, saw no hope. "They put the girls in the front row," moaned one. "Every time I look up, I see one dressed to kill. How can I listen to the lecture?" The real trouble, said another male flunkee, is that "college is the only time we have in our lives...