Word: pakistani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors gone, Nehru spoke. The SEATO conference in Karachi "confirmed our worst apprehensions," he told the Indian Parliament, by recommending settlement of the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir. Said he: "A military alliance is backing one country, namely Pakistan, in its dispute with India." He pointed to the sudden rash of skirmishes on the Pakistan border. These show, he said, that Pakistan wants U.S. arms not to deter an aggressor but to settle its disputes with India "from a position of strength." Arming of Pakistan poses "a terrible problem" for India: it will force India to spend money on defense...
...After roughing up a Pakistani umpire and bringing down the wrath of gentlemen sportsmen from London to Karachi, traveling cricketers from the Marylebone Cricket Club came home to England for an unprecedented scolding. For the first time in the history of the game a Marylebone captain drew a public reprimand for the conduct of his team...
...hire tongas (horse-drawn rickshaws) and hunt down Umpire Beg. When they found him. they politely invited him back to Deans for "a little private party." Beg refused, so the players took him anyway-according to Beg-dislocating one of his arms in the process. At Deans, the Pakistani recounted later, the cricketers doused him with water and forced him to swig some whisky, a beverage which he, as a Moslem, had never tasted voluntarily. Not until a team of Pakistani cricketers heard about Beg's ordeal and descended on the party was he rescued from his hosts...
Next day the test match continued, and Idris Beg faithfully turned up-with his arm in a sling-to umpire. Marylebone men blithely dismissed the night's adventure: "Just banter, old boy. Pure banter." But Pakistani students paraded in the streets shouting, "M.C.C., go back! Long live Idris Beg!" Police searched spectators for weapons, and stood guard over the visiting Englishmen during play...
Even a topheavy Pakistani victory by seven wickets did not smooth Pakistani feelings-nor did a formal apology by Britain's Deputy High Commissioner J.M.G. James to Governor General (now President) Iskander Mirza, who is also the Pakistani cricket board president. "English players' defeats have upset their mental balance," said Lahore's Civil and Military Gazette. "Britain's sportsmen show irritability, and resort to indecorous behavior in defeat," added the Pakistan Times. At home the English press called the cricketers "graceless boors . . . bad losers . . . bullies." Said the London Times: "Hooliganism has blotted Britain's reputation...