LAKE SUCCESS: The Kashmir issue, 10 weeks after it was brought before the Security Council, is still hanging in the balance, and it is impossible to predict whether the United Nations will bring it to a successful conclusion… . The long proceedings have passed through two distinct phases. The first phase included these features: India charged that Pakistan was aiding the “raiders who invaded Kashmir”. Secondly, Pakistan countercharges that India was an “invader” of Kashmir and widened the issue by including the Junagadh question. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported from Washington,] The Senate Foreign Relations Committee said … that the 463 million dollars aid programme it proposed for China is intended to give that country “opportunity to undertake a vigorous programme of self-help”. America “cannot underwrite the destiny of China,” the committee said in a report to the Senate. … The purpose of the aid programme … was to “relieve human suffering and give the hardworking people of China a chance to arrest the rate of economic deterioration in the country”. — News agencies

Published in Dawn, March 28th, 2023