Pakistan, May 31 -- "Kowtowing" refers to an act of excessive submission, originally from a Chinese custom of kneeling and touching the head to the ground.

Pakistan has a history of enduring recurrent cycles of humiliations and concessions under external pressures.

On September 22, during a the course of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, Field Marshal Ayub Khan's foreign minister, ZA Bhutto made the following statement before the UN Security Council:- "I have the honour to transmit the following message from the President of Pakistan, which I have just received from Rawalpindi- " I have issued the following order to Pakistan armed forces. They will stop stop fighting as from 1205 hours West Pakistan time today. As from that time they will not...