KARACHI: Pakistan yesterday [Sept 3] repl­ied to India’s 1,000-word protest Note regarding the application of evacuee property legislation and counter-charged her with violating the Karachi Agreement by extending evacuee legislation to non-agreed areas, reliable sour­ces disclosed. … While denying the allegation made by India regarding the freezing of cash balances and putting restrictions upon the movement of movable property, Pakistan’s reply is understood to have made out a “conv­i­ncing case” that all the breaches of the Kara­chi Agreement have been on the part of the Indian Dominion.

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Hong Kong,] Nationalist China has issued a Presidential decree for the arrest of 19 top Communist leaders, including Mao Tse-tung and General Chou En-lai, according to [a] … des­patch from Canton. The decree charges the Communist chiefs with selling their country through armed rebellion backed by a foreign power, bringing to nothing the fruits of eight years of resistance against foreign aggression, destruction of the fundamental characteristics of Chinese traditional culture … and hindering national reconstruction.

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2024