Word: sind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turnout that ignored clandestine appeals to boycott the polls. They heavily endorsed three of Ayub's ministers who were running for the National Assembly - notably Kashmir Affairs Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a zealous champion of Ayub's ambitious land reforms, who was elected from a Sind constituency dominated by feudal landlords who have been hardest hit by land redistribution. Ayub's biggest triumph was the voters' overwhelming rejection of orthodox Moslem extremists, who stumped for "purification" of society and repeal of such Ayub-sponsored reforms as a ban on polygamy and the traditional Moslem system...