Word: pathan
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...Lester to a mere vaudeville of the absurd. At times, the kind of war it seems to be attacking is of the class variety. England's upper-crusty Sandhurst snobs are ceaselessly satirized by Crawford and by Michael Hordern as a blimpish colonel obsessed with "the wily Pathan," who claims to understand the working man. "I had a grandfather who was a miner," he muses, "until he sold it." The larger its targets, the more petty grows the film. In deliberately choosing to caricature one of the most justifiable conflicts of Western history, War frequently displays a kind...
...answer seems to be that Ayub Khan has long shared with his countrymen the conviction that Pakistan is surrounded by enemies: huge India, which still keeps the major portion of its army on the cease-fire line in divided Kashmir; hostile Afghanistan, which wants to carve a new Pathan nation out of northern Pakistan; pro-Indian Russia; and dangerous, expansion-minded Communist China...
...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. In the 1947-48 war in Kashmir, the Indians were fighting a British-trained Pakistani army very like themselves. Since independence, the Indian army has not encountered a really first-rate foe. The guerrilla war with the rebellious
...other issue that might tilt Afghans into the Russian camp is their prickly relations with Pakistan. The rugged mountain terrain between the two nations is inhabited by wild Pushtu-speaking Pathan tribesmen-some 9,000,000 on the Pakistan side of the border alone. The Pathans love to shoot, make their own guns by hand, admit allegiance to neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan. (But once assimilated, the tall, tough Pathans make natural leaders: both the Afghan royal family and Pakistan President Ayub Khan are of Pathan stock.) The Afghans have piously encouraged the Pathans' demand for an autonomous state...
...decisive moment came when Pathan warriors from Pakistan invaded the vale of Kashmir and cut the electric supply to Srinagar palace. Sir Hari promptly fled to Jammu, taking with him an 85-vehicle convoy loaded with his possessions, including polo ponies, and necklaces from the temple gods. He also took along most of his own army, while unabashedly appealing to Nehru to come to the aid of the Kashmiri people. In return he offered to sign an instrument of accession by which Jammu and Kashmir became part of India. Nehru, who nourishes a sentimental attachment for Kashmir because his forbears...