Word: rawalpindi
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...official tour, from laying a wreath at the tomb of Pakistan's founder, Ali Jinnah, to trudging through a large textile plant, where he smiled with satisfaction on discovering that a white-haired employee earned 84? a day. At week's end Chou flew up to Rawalpindi and was warmly greeted by handsome Ayub Khan, wearing a jaunty astrakhan hat. Here the street banners read DOWN WITH INDIAN IMPERIALISM IN KASHMIR, but if they were intended to prod Chou into a public expression of support against India, they failed. The two leaders toasted each other with gold-edged...
...Under Secretary of State George Ball flew in to Rawalpindi last week to express chagrin over Pakistan's budding friendship with Red China, he got a quick and bitter taste of the nation's new mood. No fewer than five Chinese Communist delegations-including poets, pingpong players and trade officials-were getting the welcome treatment from Pakistani officials. Gleefully, the Pakistan press trumpeted the words of one visiting Chinese bard who wrote: "You are on the western coast of the sea and we are on the east. The tidal waves of the ocean roar, and intermingled...
India angrily fired off notes to both Rawalpindi and Peking condemning the pact. New Delhi was less disturbed by the barren, mountainous geography involved than by the fact that Pakistan Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could travel to Peking and negotiate a separate deal on a chunk of Kashmir with the Communist enemy, while the talks with India were still going on, and while Chinese troops still menaced India's Himalayan frontier. It just might be that Pakistan's Bhutto was using the Chinese agreement as a club to scare India's government into making compromises...
...split the Indian subcontinent into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan, the two nations have paid with strife and bloodshed to establish their conflicting claims over the disputed region. Last week, after 15 years of bitter wrangling, Indian and Pakistani delegates finally met in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi to seek a solution to the Kashmir problem...
Ayub himself seemed undismayed by the tactics; he is certain that the two countries eventually must resolve their differences in order to present a united front against Red China. Not all the Pakistanis were so stoic-or so confident. Angry voices rose in the National Assembly at Rawalpindi, Pakistan's capital, where the old antipathy to India is always hard to put down...