Word: yahya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia were more routine. India's Indira Gandhi was pleased with the beginning of U.S. troop withdrawals from Viet Nam, but -probably mindful of the running Indian disputes with Pakistan-was doubtful that collective security would be successful for the nations of the Asian periphery. Pakistan's Yahya Khan wanted to buy new arms from the U.S., but Nixon could only tell him that the matter was under review in Washington. The government-lining Pakistan Times rejected collective security as a trap that might embroil the country in big-power conflicts, and announced that the "special" U.S.-Pakistan...
...Pakistan, of course, will deliver its side of the same arguments that Nixon will hear in New Delhi. Nixon, however, probably will have more points of contention to discuss with President Yahya Khan than with Mrs. Gandhi. Pakistan has drawn increasingly close to China in recent years, while doing nothing to discourage overtures from Moscow. Since Pakistan is technically a military ally of the U.S. under the CENTO and SEATO treaties, Nixon has every right to inquire about this trend. Yahya Khan will explain that China has taken Pakistan's side in the fight with India; as for Russia...
Secessionist Sentiments. Such potentially explosive expressions run exactly counter to the aims of General Yahya Khan, the army commander who has taken over as President. In his first press conference, Yahya last week declared that he gives top priority to keeping the peace. He also said that it would take some time before the country could be returned to constitutional rule. But Bhashani has served notice that he may start new trouble soon unless the President begins to confer with Pakistani politicians, including himself, about ways to settle the country's problems. Bhashani plays on the secessionist sentiments...
...being solved in the streets. Mobs surround any place they like and force acceptance of whatever they like. There is nobody left to raise a righteous voice." Accordingly, the President declared, there was no alternative but for the army's chief of staff, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, to assume all the powers of government...
...East Pakistanis had their way, Ayub feared, what would prevent similar demands in West Pakistan that the province be carved up into four separate states? Aware for the first time that he might lose control of his once rubber-stamp National Assembly, Ayub wrote a letter to Yahya inviting the army to move...