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Since Pakistan's Mohammed Ayub Khan seized power in 1958. he has argued that Western-style constitutions are unsuited to new, underdeveloped nations...
...chaos, benevolent Dictator Ayub set out to establish a system of "basic democracies" that would steer a middle road between authoritarian rule and untrammeled democracy. Last week, after putting his compromise to the test in the first nationwide election held since Pakistan won its independence in 1947. Ayub Khan declared accurately enough that the country has made "a very happy beginning...
...that is more genuinely democratic than any thing envisaged by Ayub. The great majority of all elected candidates are former members of banned parties. At least 100 belonged to the old Moslem League, whose leader in West Pakistan is none other than Ayub's elder brother. Sardar Bahadur Khan. Moslem Leaguer Bahadur is outspokenly critical of his brother's contention that political parties, when restored, should be confined to "like-minded people" within the National Assembly, where his Moslem Leaguers will probably have a two-thirds majority...
...which doesn't understand its own country and its own conditions. We are called heretics if we don't rigidly follow the Western system." Heresy or not, if this week's elections for the provincial assemblies follow the pattern of voting for the National Assembly. Ayub Khan will be under strong pressure from unlike-minded politicians to restore a greater measure of democracy when martial law is lifted in June...
...Iranian students in this country, who hold many views, will avoid extremist positions, and rather study and work for the welfare of their country, so that Iran and all its admirable traditions will flourish long after they, Dr. Mossadegh and Mohammed Reza Shah are gone. Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian