Word: rawalpindi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast relief of both Washington and Moscow. Besides the troop pullback and civilian exchange, commercial flights between India and Pakistan have been resumed, diplomatic relations fully reestablished, some mail and telegraph services put back in operation. Last week India's turbaned Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh flew into Rawalpindi at the head of a 23-man delegation to discuss further "normalization...
...Ayub's winter-bound capital of Rawalpindi, war fever still runs high. Sandbags are piled around government buildings, air-raid trenches kept clear and ready. In the brunt of the summer's fighting, war readiness has become a way of life. In Lahore, scene of much of last summer's fighting, hardy Pakistanis last week nibbled sweets and kept their horse-driven tongas ready to carry rice and curry to frontline soldiers. "Sons of Islam are meant to fight," said one, "not to allow their guns to rust...
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was aquiver with rage and frustration-as usual. Addressing a press conference in Pakistan's capital of Rawalpindi, the hawk-nosed Foreign Minister announced that because of Malaysia's "immoral, hostile and unfriendly" attitude on the Kashmir question, Pakistan was severing diplomatic relations forthwith. Thus, last week, Pakistan became the first member of the British Commonwealth ever to cut its ties with another...
...battle ground between India and Pakistan. At Pakistani airbases, pilots stepped wear ily from their American-built Sabres and Starfighters. On the Plain of Sialkot, tank-recovery vehicles clanked up to the hulks of shattered Indian and Pakistani armor to drag them off for salvage. In New Delhi and Rawalpindi, Indians and Pakistanis began to count their dead and gild their battles of the last three weeks with claims of victory...
Travel-worn and depressed, Thant told the Security Council of the total failure of his peace-seeking mission to Rawalpindi and New Delhi. Both India and Pakistan, he said, were ready for a cease-fire but only on their own terms. India wanted a ceasefire, but not if it involved the promise of a plebiscite in Kashmir. Thant asked for new instructions but, even though the Council was meeting on an emergency basis twice a day, its members could not draft an acceptable resolution...