NEW DELHI: Demarcation of the Cease-Fire Line in Jammu and Kashmir State extending over 800 miles of territory has been completed, the United Nations Control Headquarters in Srinagar and Rawalpindi announced today [Nov 3]. The cease-fire itself came into force on Jan 1 this year. The announcement … said that the terms of the agreement reached in Karachi on July 27 by military representatives of India and Pakistan, involving not only demarcation but also extensive troop adjustments along a wide front, have been fulfilled.

The reinforcing of existing defensive positions with men or war-like stores will be a breach of the cease-fire, according to a six-point definition … agreed as supplement to the Karachi Agreement.

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Cairo,] Hussein Sirry Pasha formed an all independent Egyptian Cabinet tonight [Nov 3] a few hours after his three-months-old caretaker coalition had resigned. He had tendered the resignation of the old Cabinet after a stormy meeting of Ministers on electoral reform. “It is impossible to reach agreement among the coalition parties over any issue,” he told newsmen.

Published in Dawn, November 4th, 2024