Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord. "The first thing our boys seem to get when they go abroad," sniffed one Punjab University coed, "is the LL.D.-the landlady's daughter. Is it any wonder that we are annoyed?" A letter to the Pakistan Times charged: "Most Pakistanis who have married Western girls belong to the upper strata of society while the girls are from the lower classes. Have you heard of an English lord or duke having a Pakistani or other foreign wife?"* Still others cattily cited the unfairness of Western wiles. "Foreign girls capture our men by going out with them and spending...
...Pakistan officialdom, these charges were no laughing matter. Last week in response to the cascade of letters, Pakistan's government let it be known that it henceforth planned to enforce a long-ignored rule which requires Pakistani diplomats to submit their resignation if they intend to marry foreigners. It was also pondering a new rule that would bar from assignments abroad the high percentage (24 out of 159) of Pakistani foreign service officers already wed to foreigners...
...twangy strains of Pakistani music filled the galleries of Manhattan's Asia House last week, but the 65 stone heads, statues and reliefs on exhibit seemed to owe almost as much to the West as to the East. On loan from the government of Pakistan, these peaceful figures are the graceful legacy of an ancient civilization that to this day remains partially wreathed in mystery...
...more vulnerable allies. Said Nikita: "The countries that have bases on their territories should note most carefully the following: if they allow others to fly from their bases to our territory, we shall hit at those bases." To drive his point home, Khrushchev summoned to his side Pakistani Ambassador to Moscow Salman Ali and warned him that Soviet defense forces "have drawn a ring around Peshawar "-where the U2's pilot Francis Powers allegedly began his flight-and were prepared, if necessary, to take "retaliatory measures" against the Pakistani base. When Ambassador Oscar Gundersen of Norway, where Powers...
...camelback, on bicycles and in bullock carts, millions crowded into the cities along his route to see Eisenhower, and their reply to his message came in a torrential outpour. "We love you, Ike," cried the Turks, tough fighters on the cold-war frontier. "Take back our love, Ike," cried Pakistani throngs. In India, the reception burst the chains of imagination, crowds surged and seethed around Ike, and in front of village huts appeared brass vessels, festooned with mango leaves in recognition of a high presence...