Word: rawalpindi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the business lobbies and commercial interests that tempted the old regimes, and from the street mobs that they were able to hire for slogan-shouting marches on the legislature. The new inland capital, 100 miles east of the Khyber Pass, will also be a scant 35 miles from Rawalpindi-headquarters of the Pakistan army...
...Rawalpindi, the Pakistani suddenly freed Ghaffar Khan, along with 44 other political prisoners. Probable motive: to give a more convincing ring to Pakistan's protests against India's jailing of the deposed Sheik Abdullah of Kashmir. The Indians, who had long agitated for Ghaffar Khan's release, front-paged the good news. They got a shock when, upon leaving jail. Ghaffar Khan proved to be as independent and plain-speaking as ever. To the cheering crowds who garlanded him with flowers, he declared that Kashmir rightfully belongs to Pakistan-and that he had twice offered his services...
...hundred thousand people had come to Rawalpindi's broad green Company Gardens to hear Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan. Liaquat was in troubled territory: the Northwest frontier is full of tribal jealousies; on one side Afghanistan disputes its borders, on the other lies rich Kashmir, held by India and coveted by Pakistan...
...town of Rawalpindi, on the precarious frontier where India and Pakistan contend for the rich prize of Kashmir, an assassin's bullets rang out this week. They hit and fatally wounded Liaquat Ali Khan, 56, the chubby, able and moderate Prime Minister of Pakistan as he was making a speech to a crowded meeting. His assassin, a Moslem fanatic of a sect which favors holy war against India, was reportedly "torn to pieces" by the crowd...
...hours before the Premier spoke, police had arrested 38-year-old Major General Akbar Khan, chief of general staff of Pakistan's army, and his wife, at army headquarters in Rawalpindi. In Karachi, they arrested Brigadier M. A. Latif, commander of a brigade in Quetta, near the Afghan border. In Lahore, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, editor of the Pakistan Times, the country's second largest English-language newspaper, was taken into custody. All were accused of trying to overthrow the government...