LAKE SUCCESS: Chaudhri Mohammad Zafrullah Khan, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, speaking on the resumed debate on Hyderabad in the Security Council last night [May 19], refuted the Indian delegate’s stand that India’s action in Hyderabad was a matter of “domestic concern” and that Hyderabad had no international status and as such could not bring the matter before the Security Council. [Mr Khan] declared that the narrative of events showed that India’s action … “was entirely unjustified, that it did amount to a breach of international peace, that it amounts to a threat to the maintenance of peace and that it is a continuation of aggression which asks for redress.”

Denying India’s contention that Hyderabad had no international status, the … Minister asked if Hyderabad did not become independent after the Indian Independence Act, then what did it become? He continued: “It is obvious that if a particular state chose not to accede, it must remain independent.” …

The Indian delegate … said his Government contended that Hyderabad was not competent to bring the question before the Council. “India cannot agree to be dismembered … by allowing any of the states to claim international statehood,” he said.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2024

Opinion

Editorial

Maintaining balance
16 Feb, 2025

Maintaining balance

THERE are good reasons to be wary. With a new US administration under Donald Trump consolidating its grip on that...
Welcome return
16 Feb, 2025

Welcome return

IT is almost here; the moment Pakistan has long been waiting for — the first International Cricket Council...
Childhood trauma
16 Feb, 2025

Childhood trauma

BEING a child in this society should not be so hard. But recurrent reports of child abuse — from burying girl...
The Peca problem
Updated 15 Feb, 2025

The Peca problem

The fight for fundamental freedoms is not the media’s alone, but one that concerns every citizen.
Miners in danger
15 Feb, 2025

Miners in danger

YESTERDAY’S devastating terrorist attack in Harnai, which killed at least 11 coal miners and injured seven others,...
Solar panels scam
15 Feb, 2025

Solar panels scam

THE scam involving over-invoicing to the tune of more than Rs69bn in the import of solar panels raises many ...