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When the U.S. first proposed, last November, to strengthen Middle East defenses against Russia by providing arms aid for Pakistan, Pakistan's Bad Neighbor Nehru fanned up a white hot rage in India against American policy. But the U.S. persisted in negotiations with Karachi, and last week-in comparative quiet-signed a one-year military-aid agreement with Pakistan...
...pact obligates the U.S. to provide arms and training assistance, obligates Karachi in turn to use the assistance for defense only, not for aggression. Explained Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan, in answer to Russian, Egyptian and Indian objections: the agreement does "not involve a military alliance between the two governments nor . . . any obligation on the part of Pakistan to provide military bases for . . . the United States." New Delhi charged that Pakistan had already promised the U.S. secret air bases (and, indeed, in event of war they could be easily arranged). But India was no longer so suspicious...
Even in his own area, the East Pakistani feels like a second-class citizen, exploited by carpetbaggers from Karachi who hold most of the top government posts and most of the top police jobs. Last week the news seeped through tight censorship that East Pakistan's hatred had flared into appalling bloodshed...
...Karachi treats us like some kind of colony," the United Fronters had cried during the campaign, and they had a point. Smaller in area but much greater in population than the West, East Pakistan has never had anything close to equal treatment by Karachi. It pays heavy sales taxes, income taxes, refugee taxes and duties on jute and other exports, but the national government habitually invests most of the revenue in West Pakistan...
East Pakistanis must transact official busi ness with Karachi in Urdu, the Western language, and not in their native Bengali. The United Front promised to do away with this "colonial status" and to speed up land reform with no compensation to the disliked landlords. East Pakistanis responded by voting the many-sided opposition local control of half of Pakistan. Mohammed Ali, a shrewd politician, had taken to East Pakistan's hustings in person to avert a rout, but not in time. This week he met Suhrawardy to lay the groundwork for settling East Pakistan's legitimate grievances...