KARACHI: “Pakistan has the largest and most important strategic frontiers in the Commonwealth. Nevertheless [she] … is not receiving … [sufficient] material assistance … from Britain necessary to carry out her commitments,” Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, told Mr Douglas Stuart, BBC’s Correspondent in Pakistan, in an interview… . He said that Britain had given Pakistan no assistance over … the division of defence stores with India. Under the agreement reached at the time of partition India was to have made available … about 160,000 tons of defence stores. India, however, had supplied Pakistan with only about 30,000 tons and has stopped [since]. [Mr Khan] said … that the Commonwealth should act as a body to settle inter-Dominion disputes. “Unless the Commonwealth [countries] … can agree to [act] in concert on specific matters there is a serious danger of the Commonwealth … fizzling out.”
[Meanwhile, according to Dawn’s staff correspondent,] … Khan Abdul Qayyum, Premier of NWFP, at a press conference at Karachi on [May 26] … [on the Kashmir plebiscite said]: “For India … it might be a question of annexation, but for Pakistan it is a question of life and death. …”
Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2024
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