Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the Indus valley, and the water squabble began. Prime Minister Nehru protested that Pakistan demanded practically all the canal flow, while vast areas of India were "simply thirsting and panting for water." Pakistan cried that India's huge irrigation and water-development schemes would turn millions of Pakistani acres into a dust bowl. When India abruptly cut off the waters of one canal system for a month, a Pakistani leader threatened invasion, shouted: "Better a quick, glorious death than a slow, lingering...
...with the Soviet Union, and has been careful to express no official sympathy for the Tibetan rebels. But the most surprising change is a sudden shift in the long-embittered relations between India and Pakistan. Even though an Indian jet bomber was shot down last month when it violated Pakistani air space, both nations are doing fresh thinking about the future. Pakistan's President Ayub Khan publicly urged that they should "learn to live like good neighbors" without "frightening or fearing each other." In the light of Tibetan events, he said, Pakistan and India must join together...
...like a "Western" diplomat rather than a "neutralist," and American attitudes toward India warm as Indian outrage over Tibet grows. Last week The Times of India was filled with enough good feeling to advocate a summit meeting between Nehru and Mohammed Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan, praising the new Pakistani government as "the one with which we can do business. Its leaders have on more than one occasion made conciliatory references to India and recognize the danger and futility of continued emnity with this country." And Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Manzur Qadir, earlier suggested that the two countries reconsider their...
...number of forces will have to be overcome before the old enmities are resolved, however. Each country is suspicious of the other's use of American aid, claiming that when the U.S. strengthens one nation it endangers the other. On April tenth, Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections...
...Pakistan has kept its firm Western alignment, but Ayub has gone to unprecedented lengths to soothe his country's bitter quarrel with India. He has stilled the strident propaganda of the country's radios, last month became the first Pakistani leader to attend the Indian High Commission's Republic Day celebration in Karachi. After a recent border incident he said mildly: "If our chaps are at fault, we will take action against them...