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...over-crowded city because, apart from the fact that it was chosen as the seat of central government on securing independence, it has received and is still receiving a large influx of refugees from India. As regards the Kashmir issue, Mr. Beecher, who would not have President Mohammed Ayub Khan "intransigent," himself appears to support the intransigence of those who have successfully resisted the various efforts made by the United Nations to hold a free and impartial plebiscite in order to ascertain the wishes of the Kashmiri people whether they would like to join Pakistan or India. The simple expedient...
From the beginning, President Mohammed Ayub Khan has emphasized that his aim is to improve efficiency in administration. The emphasis is twofold: (1) tackling the major problems; and (2) on service to the people. Persistent interference by locally influential, corrupt politicians which obstructed the execution of well-formulated policies has died. It is hardly relevant to criticize the new cabinet of talented and practical men on grounds of "political inexperience." Inside Pakistan, stagnation has given way to a new vitality and resignation has changed to constructive puposefulness...
...method, that of military dictatorship, may be as hard for Americans to accept as the man. But surely the ten years since Jinnah's death argue well against democracy. As Ayub's former partner said at the time of the coup, "I am quite certain that we could never have fair and honest elections. When we did hold municipal elections in Karachi only 28 per cent voted and a full 50 per cent of the votes were bogus." Mirza concluded that "Democracy without education is hypocrisy without limitation...
...dictators have pledged to restore constitutions and democratic government with the passing of the emergency that brought them power, there is no guarantee that they will do so. Like Mirza's, their authority is revolution. Sympathetic to the West and benign to its own people as General Ayub's government may now appear, Nehru has reminded the United States that it is not accurate to maintain that Pakistan still belongs to the free world...
Whether or not Ayub is the man for Pakistan, the revolt in Pakistan raises a further question: Is Democracy the method for the underdeveloped countries of southern Asia? Those who believe with Nehru that Democracy can meet the challenge of Communist China, may lend a readier ear to pleas that the United States devote a larger part of its foreign aid to economic rather than military projects. Policies of primarily military aid in underdeveloped countries may, indeed, foster and maintain the military dictatorships that are now appearing...