GENEVA: The International Red Cross has asked India for details of the incident in which several Pakistani prisoners-of-war were reportedly killed by Indian guards on Tuesday [March 7], a Red Cross spokesman said here today [ March 9]. This followed a protest by the Pakistani Government to the IRC representative in Islamabad and a demand for an immediate inquiry into the killings. The Government of India has permitted a representative of the International Red Cross to visit and see for himself the conditions in POWs camp, where security guards opened fire on Tuesday. The Indian Government … had ordered an inquiry into the incident. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Karachi,] A consensus has been reached at a special session of the Aid-to-Pakistan Consortium in Washington last week on the resumption of aid immediately and a long-term moratorium, Mr. M.M. Ahmad, Government’s Adviser on Foreign Loans, said here yesterday [March 9]. Talking to newsmen, on return to Karachi from Washington, he said that … the World Bank, the Aid-to-Pakistan Consortium and the International Development Association had all agreed to help Pakistan in the foreign exchange requirements.

Published in Dawn, March 10th, 2022