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...passengers balanced precariously on narrow wooden seats to bend their knees in the direction of Mecca. In cars reserved for them, veiled womenfolk nursed babies and tied up bedrolls in anticipation of arrival at Karachi in an hour's time. Pakistan's bearded Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan made his devotions in the quiet of an air-conditioned carriage...
...Moslems. The Ahmadiyas are a close-knit and unpopular group, followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who at the turn of the century declared himself a Nabi, or prophet of Allah. There was politics in the mullahs' demands, because Pakistan's Foreign Minister, able, bearded Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, is an Ahmadiya.* The Ahraris' mullahs demanded his removal. When the government refused, the mullahs began stirring up trouble, particularly in Lahore, where there are many Ahmadiyas. Craftily they timed their protest to occur before the new season's crops were harvested, when people were hungry...
...Zafrullah's talk, which is the second of three lectures that he is to deliver during his weekend visit here, was given in the Litiauer Auditorium before a crowd of 150 students and faculty members...
...outline of the international aspects of the Kashmir dispute, Sir Zafrullah described the economic and political status of Pakistan and of India...
...response to an inquiry from the floor, Sir Zafrullah said: "I can think of no logical reason: It is obviously an attempt to cripple Pakistan...