PEKING: …Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who arrived here yesterday [Nov 5] … continued talks this afternoon and evening with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai… . Parallel talks were being held between the three principal Pakistan armed forces chiefs who are members of the delegation and the heads of the three armed services of China.

Earlier today, a senior Pakistani official said the delegation’s visit could be related to the departure next week of Peking’s delegation to the United Nations. An official spokesman told newsmen that Indian border activity could be raised at the Security Council as a possible threat to peace, but he declined to say whether Pakistan had asked China to raise the issue.

[Meanwhile, according to reports from Washington,] Differences between India and the United States over the crisis in East Pakistan remained unbridged today [Nov 6] as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi headed for New York after two days of talks with President Nixon. ... Our Chief Overseas Correspondent adds from London: … BBC Washington correspondent today reported a “deadlock” between Mrs Indira Gandhi and President Nixon over the Indian Prime Minister’s demand that all economic aid and military supplies to Pakistan be suspended until Islamabad accepts a “settlement”…

Published in Dawn, November 7th, 2021