Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political side of the picture, Nasim Hasan Shah, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the High Court of West Pakistan, and lecturer at the Law College of the University of the Punjab, said the chief problem in politics is unity between the two sections that are divided by over 1,000 miles of alien territory...
...from the teeming cities of India to the jungle swamps of Tanganyika, the Aga Khan was a holy figure, held in unquestioning esteem. Born in Karachi of Persian parents on Nov. 2, 1877, of a line that claims direct descent from the Prophet's daughter Fatima, young Mahomed Shah became Imam of the Ismailis at the age of seven, when his father died...
...terms were surprising because only a few months ago Iran demanded a 75-25 profit split from interested Italian investors v. the 50-50 split that is general in the Middle East. Parliament was preparing to write the new terms into law when the Shah intervened. Realizing that the new terms would discourage foreign money and know-how, he put his weight behind a new, more liberal law containing a 50-50 provision, plus other favorable provisions for foreign investors, e.g., a liberal write-off of expenses before profits are figured...
...best example of how Iranian attitudes have changed since the xenophobic days of Premier Mossadegh is a provision allowing the Shah and NIOC to negotiate directly with foreign firms without the preliminary wrangling in the Majlis that discouraged many a prospective investor in the past. With the new law several U.S. oil firms, plus Japanese and Italian companies, are expected to try their luck soon in Iran's oil-promising interior...
Died. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, the Aga Khan III, 79, leader of some 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect; of a heart attack; at his villa in Versoix, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...