A letter dated September 27, 1955.
(After a coup in 1958, General Ayub Khan made himself president. The following letter,if read without knowing the writer’s identity or the year it was written in, may seem like a recent complain from some Pakistani general. This relation-game has been going on for more than five decades without benefiting the people of Pakistan in any manner On the contrary, it has hurt them when these US supported generals are imposed on them. Ed.)
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8. Forgive me for being frank, but I would be failing in my duty if I did not tell you that our people are completely frustrated. They think they have been given an enormous amount of work unnecessarily and that they have been let down. They are in a mood not to accept an American word however solemnly given. This is sad in that it does not augur well for our future good relationship which was one of the things I had been hoping to develop.
9. What the political repercussions be when this news gets known, and after all you cannot conceal facts indefinitely in a Democracy, I do not know. But one thing I do know that this government will come under tremendous pressure and fire from within and without.
Hope you are in very good health.
Read the full letter.
Thanks to Robin Khundkar)