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...town of Rawalpindi, on the precarious frontier where India and Pakistan contend for the rich prize of Kashmir, an assassin's bullets rang out this week. They hit and fatally wounded Liaquat Ali Khan, 56, the chubby, able and moderate Prime Minister of Pakistan as he was making a speech to a crowded meeting. His assassin, a Moslem fanatic of a sect which favors holy war against India, was reportedly "torn to pieces" by the crowd...
Ingalls stated that the powerful Moslem League would be "chary" about starting a holy war with India since Khan's death may weaken the internal strength of Pakistan...
...assassination of Premier Liaquat All Khan by a Moslem fanatic will probably not affect Pakistan's favorable relations with Western powers, two faculty experts agreed last night...
Emerson compared the death of Khan to the assassination of India's first premier, Mahatma Ghandi, shot by a Hindu fanatic. As in the case of Khan, Ghandi was killed by a religious fanatic of his own faith...
...Khan toured the United States last year, stopping off in Cambridge for an address at M.I.T. and a visit to Harvard. The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, he is a graduate of the Oxford Law School in the class of 1921, and following a brief term of practice in England he went to India. He joined the Moslem League in 1923 and has been one of its moderating influences since...