Pakistan's Governor General Ghulam Mohammed and his tight little regime of civil servants and soldiers have suspended the Constituent Assembly, and now rule by decrees. They like to call themselves a "controlled democracy." But they realize that plain old democracy has too good a sound to let their opponents steal it. Last week Ghulam made a canny gesture to win popular support. For his new Minister of Law, he appointed Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, 61, popular leader of the opposition United Front, "and a big man in Bengal, who will now, under "controlled democracy," be expected to get along inside...
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