Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time was running out. Said chief Pakistani Negotiator Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: "We have told India that the sixth round will be the final round...
...chances of India and Pakistan's solving their prickly dispute over control of Kashmir are not very bright. Last week, on the eve of the fourth round of talks in Calcutta, Pakistan dimmed hopes of settlement even further by signing a border agreement with Red China, which recognized Pakistani control to a part of northern Kashmir that has long been claimed by the Indians...
Indian and Pakistani delegates met in New Delhi last week to resume negotiations over control of disputed Kashmir province. Two days of discussions failed to break the impasse that appeared at the very first meeting in December. Pakistan repeated its demand for a plebiscite, which would surely bring Kashmir under its control; India insisted that the present cease-fire line, which gives India two-thirds of the province, become, with only minor adjustments, the permanent legal frontier between the two countries. Though neither side would budge, neither wanted to take the blame for breaking off the talks for good...
When a boy from Berkeley joins the Peace Corps to teach young Ghanaians, that's idealism with a touch of glamour; when he signs up to teach in Harlem, that's plain idealism. When a Kansas nurse helps Pakistani psychotics, that's useful and also exotic; when she helps Navajo neurotics, that's just useful. Last week the Kennedy Administration approved the blueprint for a project abundantly idealistic and daringly short of glamour: the domestic Peace Corps, probably to be known by the undramatic title of National Service Corps...
...fact that 77% of Kashmir's 4,200,000 people were Moslem pointed to control by Moslem Pakistan. But though he had signed preliminary trade and administrative agreements with Pakistan, Kashmir's Hindu maharajah began to hedge. Angered by his failure to accede to Pakistan, hordes of Pakistani "volunteers" swept into Kashmir to establish Pakistan's claim to the land. In terror, the Hindu ruler opted to join India, appealed for immediate military aid. India was happy to respond, airlifted troops into Kashmir to fortify its own claim...