Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small. In the years after independence in 1947 split the Indian subcontinent into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan, the two nations have paid with strife and bloodshed to establish their conflicting claims over the disputed region. Last week, after 15 years of bitter wrangling, Indian and Pakistani delegates finally met in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi to seek a solution to the Kashmir problem...
...Indian forces number some 500,000, but fewer than 100,000 men were committed to the Red border area-the bulk of the army, and many of its best units, being kept on guard duty in Kashmir watching the Pakistanis. A strictly volunteer army, with the men serving five-year terms, it drew its troops largely from the warrior races of the north-Jats, Sikhs, Gurkhas, Dogras, Garhwalis. Over the past century, the Indian army has fought from France to China, and has usually fought excellently, whether pitted against Pathan guerrillas, Nazi panzer grenadiers or Japanese suicide squads...
...frontiers than with how the crisis would affect its bitter and longstanding dispute with India over control of Kashmir. Bitterly. Pakistan pointed to the crack Indian divisions still positioned along the U.N. cease-fire line as proof that India was exaggerating the extent of the Chinese incursions. Echoing influential Pakistani officials who labeled India the "aggressor" in the border conflict. President Ayub Khan said that "international Communism" was far less of a danger to Pakistan than "Hindu imperialism," and that India was "inflating the present situation beyond proportion to get arms" from the U.S. and Britain...
After insisting that his own department is thoroughly integrated (which is more or less true), he set the tone for the conversation by describing a recent meeting with a Pakistani health official. "We could learn a great deal from those people," he began, his inflecting reminding us that an honest person gives credit where it is due, even if he must praise an off-colored Asian tribe. "Do you know that their men and women never meet until they have to get married? They society has no problems of immorality...
Inequitably Correct. Since the 1958 race riots in Notting Hill and later in the port city of Middlesbrough, violence has grown rare, but it has been replaced by a more finicky discrimination. In Smethwick tenants in a housing project staged a rent strike when a Pakistani family was given an apartment; workers in an Oxfordshire factory voted 591-205 against the management's proposal to fill vacant jobs with colored immigrants. British unions are on record as opposing any color bar, but when job shortages occur, the unwritten union rule is "blacks out first." British social workers argue that...