Word: rawalpindi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IBNUL HASAN Rawalpindi, Pakistan...
Ayub has started construction on a luxurious new capital for Pakistan in the cool highlands near Rawalpindi. When completed (in ten years), it will be one of the best-planned yet lowest-cost-per-unit cities in Asia. In keeping with Ayub's austere, no-nonsense habits, he has instructed the builders that the new presidential palace should be the kind of place that "one woman...
...Kashmir, where since 1949 Indian and Pakistan armies have faced each other across a U.N.-drawn crossfire line. The treaty signing over, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan took his guest to the summer lodge at Murree, overlooking Rudyard Kipling's storied mountain city of Rawalpindi. For two days, as 70-year-old Nehru gradually perked up from the aftereffects of a recent cholera shot and a tooth extraction, the two British-educated leaders walked in the pine-fringed garden and delicately explored their differences. It was, said an aide, a "conversation by suggestion, by implication, by pregnant...