1958-10-11 — Page 7

THETM CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1958.

BRIAN GARDNER

ends his Eastern journey with a roport

on the Moslem State carved out of India

Where

women

still live behind

Pakistan, jika Nahru's Indie, le a young nation of high ambition, anciant Qustoms, and Immenée prob- fems. Now factories aro going up. But the mud hovel

is still the home of miŝilone,

"WE

VELCOME to Pakistan," said the Customs official at Karachi Airport. "You have aome to one of the most progressive countries in the world." He borrowed my pen to fill in the numerous forms.

The second Pakistani I saw was the guard at the counter of the National Bank of Pakistan in the airport lobby, where I went to cash a traveller's cheque.

He held a double-barrelled Exchange, the main problem of shotgun and a bandolier of life is the same—to keep cool. cartridges hung from his shoulder. He sported enormOUS black moustaches and a dirly white shirt. Ic suspiciously,

eyed

те

Jet planes screamed over- head. The old world and the new mingle cantly Pakistan

in

Karachi is the capital of this 11-year-old country. On it hot, burning streets 1 mingled with its prople....with Pakdis iani in tong, off-white gar- merita like sheets....with

So

proud

Karachi is a city of more two million people. In than 1940, before the partition of Indlu, fewer than a third of a million people lived there. Millions of Moslems crossed, the border from Hindu Indla Moslem Pakistan in the early years of Independence-ficeing from the religious riots and terror of Nehru's India.

to

"They cannot all be absorbed

Pakistanla dressed up in topres in our econany," said Atuned-a

and khalel drill to look British

sahibs....with known and unseen women purdah.

many

the veil

Industrialise ne quickly as we

We went into a cafe, full of can,”anid the director-genetal, wealthy young Pakistan's, big, cool

or

The rich merchants

Is the BOOM here to stay?

WHERE is Britain

heading? Are we

at

the beginning of the biggest boom since the end of the war or is the sudden up- surge of confidence mis placed?

and were served This was the factory estate. I glasses of cold ten.

Under the chairmanship of asked to ECC tho Low

Mr Max Aitken, three of housing estate in which those I was surprised, but not Britain's best journalists fortunate enough to work at irritated, to discover that the

"Ica" looked and tasted remark Frederick Ellis of the Daily Ex. Landhi Ilved.

ably 19e Scotch and soda-press, Edward Westropp of the Outside one of the high walls which, indeed, it was.

Sunday Express, and Alexander of the estate. and stretching away for miles, I saw a coller-

Thomson of the Evening Stan- tion of hovels. Most of them accused of selfish, get-rich-quick dard-have met together to were made of poles and matting, atitudes by the opposition | deliberate and give their collec- some of mud Others were con- Moslem League Party. The poor tive views to the nation's inven. structed of discarded tins, old are accused by the Establish- car tyres and packing cases, anent of being lazy and of being 1979.

more willing to beg or steal than to work. There are only two classes in Pakistan: poor,

1

The moment for this meeting has been well chosen. It comes at a Vime rich and

when Britain

fully regained the magnificent peilion in the world which only 12 montlu

she seemed

danger of

There were no doors ar windows, and at least one side was open. In one or two I saw a table. Bome had a carpet

but the of matting,

In sandy

La the 11 years independence, Pakistan earth was a floor to most.

has Jever enjoyed the luxury of a

eneral election.

In many of these hovels the occupants were lying or oqunt- ling on the ground with nothing but their bodies and their raga to present to the world.

Ahmed was still talking about the wonders of indus- trial Paleistan. Until I re- marked on it, i am certain that he did not even notice the squalor around

than

Caricatures

of

But han It achieved

ariswer The progressi

yes

ת

tosin

any

is

Then the outlook – was black, The gold and dollar reserves

had sunk to the danger-mark of £400 million.

And,

If progress means that an office boy can earn as much as that a graduate. If it means Ministers should have two for limousines and a plane, which they have recently been asking.

But the dying men whom I #tepped over in the streets of Karachi probably never believed earn in progress, anyway. One in

particular, naked but

"Some of these people ike Pakistani who herself came

for n has built a week in the factories here," Lin- from India, and who

"Of course, you must ragged loin cloth, had taken the in up a small business for himself. he said

and lay "Most of them eventually drift not expect miracles in 11 years. grating off a gutter

better groaning with his head dang- to Karachi, or the surrounding Living conditions are Surprisingly

women country,

they might be. because the Govem»

Our ling Inside--what dia be think are still in purdah. From child meni is here and they think economy is only just beginning." of progress? hood untli death, they will they will be noticed and some-

Naked children crawled off never be seen except by their thing will be done.”

the road as wo hooted and husbonds or close relatives.

the They live in a strange, limited

bumped our way along narrow way between the maze world.

of seething humanity in the huts enveloping us.

striking One of the most things about Karachi is the absence of women in the streets and pubile buildings,

Bicycle rickshaws jostle with Bleek Americon cars, with horse-drawn, shaded carriages, with mule, oxen, and stately camel carts.

of

the

Everyone I have met is immensely proud country's progress. The way 16 ha semi-industrialised 11- self to ten years le the proud boast of all.

A dream

Aluned took me 20 miles out of Karachi, to a place called Landhi, which is, he told me, atong so une of the most modern Indus- The camels silp silently that they have metal trial estates in Asia. Wo bumped dises jangling from the rear of over the roughest rond on which the

10 warn carts

of their have travelled. approach.

All the while, as I grabberi

"Now I close the windows," said Ahmed. "In the afternoon sun the smell here is bnd."

Limply

...

Meanwhile, the sun glares down on all creatures below, and the steady flow of life con- tinues from sun to shado, as it has in these parts since lite began,

On the way into Karachi we In the afternoons most sen- passed a huge milkary camp; sible people find a place in the miles of barracks, stores and shade, and fall off to sleep. lounging soldiers,

The water-carriers stagger Pakistan ofeers, with their under their loads, the files humi dark classes and

their and swarm around the open SWAKKER сался, look like food stores, the politicions caricatures of the conven- argue in the air-cooled Parlin- tlonál

A idea of

British mont buildings, and some tavalry ofcer.

people just crouch in the dust in their accustomed spots, heada

nodding, never speaking.

Adding to the busile and con- at the dashboard to keep myself Sald Ahmed: "Many people fusion are hundreds of carcering from flying through the window, say that Pakistan is putting too Imotor-scooter taxis which I was told about the wonders much money into its forces, in -day manage somehow to carry so of modern Pakistan,

order to fight India some "passengers on the back

We arrived

Landhi for Kashmir. Not enough goes at the It stands

the into health and education, and Many tradesmen use the pave- estate,

be right. meats as their shops. I have edge of the barren desert which housing. They may

deen

1

estate is cent."

Over the

a barber shaving a man atreiches for hundreds of miles The illiteracy hero is 89 per sitting on the ground before behind Karachi. The hia, and a "doctor" dexterously completely walled. sticking a knitting needle into wall a jumble of factory ehlin- the ear of his customer.

neys can be seen.

Karachi is no paradise in the sun. It smells, it is dirty, and everywhere there is dust from the desert.

Surprise

Rickety bed-frames are ncattered Along the Dave- menfa, under the parched- Looking

On trees.

them Refugees from Indin lie, arms dangling Iimply on to the dusty ground.

And outside Frere Hall ( memory of a British administra-

tor Sir Bartie Frere, who

I was allowed to inspect the But everyone in Pakistan is helped build Karachi), "Queen Raw upon row of mall conscious of the Indian troops Victoria stands on, a pedestal estate.

an ancient factories stood beside neatly occupying Kashmir. Everyone is and gazes down on arranged lanes. From inside the happy that Fakistan can show dream come true-an indepen- buldings came the

sound of some strength to Nehru.

dent Moalem State in India.

Back in the city, Ahmet Time is very slow and very and Pakistan may It long here, suggested some cold tea.

holiday in achieve progress as it presses, in was Friday, a Moslem countries, and the sale the meantime it is only 100 BREY and go to was to sit in the shade of anything stronger

sleep. prohibited.

The sun glaas down, as if in busy machines.. The place angor, on all below. Whether seemed an Industrialist's dream. you are a wretched, dleease Here was the hinge of a ridden refugee living in the modern society street or

ipping. Verandah

tea

*

JUOM

on

new,

on the Indian

standard of raise the

hero were must

rich merchant sub-continent.

a fan-cooled

the

"TO

Cotton living

JAK GOES TO A BOTTLE PARTY

had come to the United States

which, the cornomists predicted, would spread to Britain bring Ing falling exports and un- employment in our baslo dustries.

1957

150

SEP OCT NOV

MAR APR

Martir

1958

Three men with an answer: Westropp, Ellis, Thomson,

1

Parë --7

They stated that the market modities such worse still, recession remotely likely. And they can-

1. oll, base sidered that

localised normally anticipated events in metals, and raw materials of all struggle took place in the Fur industry either good or bad- kinds could disappear as quickly. East it would result in a boom by six months or more, And as they acoumulated last winter. in all base metals and raw they considered that, although materials.

At home there is every indica- the future for trade was bright, Secondly, Mr Altken drew a period of consolidalion would tion that British industry is as their attention to the apparent follow the present rises in share aggressively competitivo as that ending of the American reces- prices before the next major of any country in the world- sion and the fact that not only upswing took place.

America not excepted. been were share prices in Wall Street

The pessimists have Proved utterly wrong.

-

Our

at the highest-ever level but Bat they could see no cause, We lead in the air. Led by the motor industries, that in London the market hat no cause whatever, for getting electroni Industry 13 un- exports have remained buoyant, recovered its entire losses of the rid of good shares at the present surpassed, an Our technical skill is such that past few months.

Our

goods have continued fu demand all over the world,

of Ali, And, best

gold and dollar reserve

bave figures riten for 11 mocénsive months.

Agreement

Ume.

In the development of atomie The relaxation of cred!! re- power we have becumulated the casing of hire- invaluable experience that our strictions, the purchase terms, and the new rivals lock.

And in the older trades-in chemicals and cars and steel the re-equipment of our face torles which has been going on ccaselessly since the war enables us to remain in the

Was this rise in price over- Personal loan schemes of the It is against this backround done? Had it outstripped the big banks would, in their view, of renewed confidence that the industrial recovery here and in bring a steady increase in the Journalista seek to predict the the United Stales? And it so sale of a huge range of consumer course of financial events in the should investors take the oppor- goods from motor-cars to furni

tunity of selling

fure and washing machines. apparently coming months.

First Mr Altken asked them overvalued shares?

To sum up!--- to what

con- In this chae degree they

too, Ellis, sidered International politics Westropp, and Thomson were The journalists are soberly

IT IS A PICTURE OF A effected the position.

They In agreement.

thought optimistic. On the world front ·BUOYANT, VIGOROUS On this they were unani- that the immediate future of the it seems to them that the tem- BRITAIN IN WHICH INVËS. mous. They did not believe stock markets could be viewed pornry slump is onding-that TOHS CAN HAVE UNSHAKEN that a world confict was even with cautious opumism.

the marginal surpluses of com- FAITH.

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