However, Mr Bhutto has agreed to have one more meeting with Sardar Swaran Singh tomorrow at 11am. This session, according to agencies, will be only to fulfil formalities.

Mr Bhutto told newsmen after the evening session: “We have clarified our proposal that the valley should be internationalised as an interim arrangement, say, for six months. Thereafter the wishes of the people should be determined regarding the future dispensation.”

Mr Bhutto also said that a third-party mediation proposal or any other new proposal was not discussed.

Asked if there is no arrangement for further talks in the current series, Mr Bhutto said he could not say anything on this question until his meeting with Sardar Swaran Singh tomorrow morning. Sardar Singh was not present when Mr Bhutto was talking to newsmen.

Later, Sardar Swaran Singh stated, according to AFP, that Pakistan’s proposal for internationalising Kashmir was contrary to the Indian position.

The Indian Minister added that there were no plans at present for further meetings or conferences between India and Pakistan.

There were two meetings today spreading over 140 minutes. The first session began about 11am at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The two emerged from the hall after about 80 minutes. Sardar Swaran Singh announced that they would meet again at 5pm.—Correspondent

Azad Kashmir under threat RAWALPINDI: Mr K.H. Khurshid, President of the Azad Government of Jammu and Kashmir, disclosed here today (May 15) that there has been a heavy concentration of Indian troops in occupied Kashmir, apparently for an attack on Azad Kashmir.

He said that never before had there been so much danger of an attack by the Indian Army on Azad Kashmir as now, because of the massive supply of arms by American, Britain and other Western countries.—Correspondent