Oh, Brother

India's Nehru had agreed to join Pakistan's President Ayub Khan in seeking an early solution to the Kashmir problem. But now India already was beginning to stall, refused to commit itself on either the date or place of any conference.

Ayub himself seemed undismayed by the tactics; he is certain that the two countries eventually must resolve their differences in order to present a united front against Red China. Not all the Pakistanis were so stoic--or so confident. Angry voices rose in the National Assembly at Rawalpindi, Pakistan's capital, where the old antipathy to India is always hard to put down.

Leading the opposition was a 54-year-old lawyer and fiery Moslem Leaguer who refused to accept any solution to Kashmir other than a plebiscite, which would probably give the province to Pakistan. "We have nothing against Communism," he said, "but we cannot reconcile ourselves to Hindu domination." Sternly he warned

Ayub not to trust any agreement signed by Nehru, because he "knows how to get out of commitments far more binding and rigid." Who was the opposition chieftain? None other than Ayub's own younger brother, Sardar Bahadur Khan.

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