Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...green-upholstered chair in Parliament, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri listened to his critics attack the government on everything from the Indian economy to the army's inability to come to grips with Pakistani infiltrators in Kashmir...
...curious mountain war sputtered on. At Yusmarg, a tiny Himalayan village near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, Indian police fought off a night attack by "hundreds" of Pakistani infiltrators armed with mortars, light machine guns and Sten guns. On the winding highway between Srinagar and Leh, a vital link to Indian forces manning the Communist Chinese border in Ladakh, a 14-man police detail guarding a wooden bridge clashed with night raiders...
Insisting that the mysterious marauders were part of a 3,000-man force of Pakistanis, India struck back last week by occupying three deserted Pakistani outposts on the Kargil ridge line (see map). Not far away, Pakistani artillery was reported to be shelling the road to Leh. Kashmir's Governor Karan Singh warned, "There is a limit to the patience of even the most patient country in the world. They are driving iron into our souls...
...advising Ayub that the next meeting of the aid consortium of the U.S. and eight other nations that had promised Pakistan a fresh $500 million had been postponed from July 27 until Sept. 27. The message suggested that the interval thus created might be useful for ironing out U.S.-Pakistani differences...
...Once Pakistani tempers cooled, negotiations could continue. For the moment, Pakistan was suffering an acute case of hurt pride, and as one U.S. official admitted ruefully, "This is the worst our relations have ever been...