KARACHI: Pakistan has lodged a strong protest with Afghanistan against an anti-Pakis­tan speech delivered by Afghan Edu­cation Mi­­­nister, Mr Faiz Mohammad Khan, it was reliably learned on Monday [Nov 28]. The Pa­­k­­istan protest, lodged through the Pakistan Amb­assador at Kabul, recalls, it was understood, a speech made by Mr. Faiz Mohammad Khan at a students’ gathering in Kabul on [Nov 6].

Pakistan … is … understood to have clearly stated that such unfriendly speeches made by responsible Ministers of the Afghan Government would only strain relations between the two Governments. Persistence of such an unfriendly attitude would make it very difficult for Pakistan to maintain friendly relations with Afghanistan which she so earnestly desires, the Note is learned to have pointed out. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in Chicago,] the federation of American Scie­n­tists today [Nov 28] threw its weight into the … controversy on security in atom bomb developments by declaring it “vital that the American public be given some of the significant facts about our own position and that of Russia in the atomic armaments race”.

Published in Dawn, November 29th, 2024