Word: pathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half of Pakistani hospitality, he attended a society matron's dream of a dinner party (held under two huge, orange-and-black-striped tents that were floored with rich Oriental rugs), heard the eerie caterwauling of pipes played by a countermarching military regiment, watched Pathan tribesmen from the northwest frontier as they danced in wild, hair-tossing abandon, observed part of an Australian-Pakistani cricket match, marveled at an exhibition of tent-pegging (in which shrieking horsemen galloped full speed at tent pegs and picked them out of the ground on their lances as they swooped...
...Khyber Pass tribal leaders draped garlands around Macmillan's neck, gave him the traditional Pathan tribesman's greeting: "Welcome; come in peace." In Ceylon, which has been busily ejecting Britain from its old military bases, even Macmillan was amazed at the warmth of his welcome from crowds that lined the streets as he passed. Between speeches in Australia, the visitor shed his necktie and distributed the steaks in person at a Queensland sheep-station barbecue. In Melbourne he went out of his way to shake hands with policemen, housewives, schoolchildren and members of his honor guard. "A triumph...
...between China, Tibet and Afghanistan, was a prize which both India and Pakistan had been eying greedily ever since the British left India. As a princely state, it was entitled to choose which new nation it would join. Kashmir's Hindu maharaja, panicked by an invasion of tough Pathan Moslem tribesmen from northwest Pakistan, chose India-despite the fact that 77% of his subjects were Moslems.* There followed a 14-month war in which the Indian army badly mauled both the Pathans and the Pakistani regulars who had come in to give the tribesmen a hand. By the time...
...remarks were taken with a grain of sodium chloride. The city buzzed with the news that an Afghan arms-buying mission would soon be on the way to Moscow, and that large quantities of Soviet arms would get into the hands of Afghanistan's border-raiding Pathan tribesmen. Thus the Soviet Traveling Salesmen sought to punish the West's good friend Pakistan. Having endorsed India's claims to Kashmir (disputed by Pakistan), they now encouraged the Afghans' claim to northern territories of West Pakistan...
...Marshal Bulganin eagerly grasped the chance to align Russia behind Afghanistan in its quarrel with the West's good friend, Pakistan. He had already nosily sided with India against Pakistan's claims to Kashmir. Now he insisted that it was only just for some 6,000,000 Pathan tribesmen and their hill country in West Pakistan should be severed from Pakistan, turned into the state of Pakhtoonistan and joined with the Afghan state. Premier Daoud appeared delighted...