KARACHI: “We shall give Sir Owen Dixon our fullest support in his efforts to carry out the functions that the Security Council has entrusted to him,” said Chaudhri Zafrullah Khan, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, on his arrival at the Karachi Airport yesterday [April 23]… . Back to Karachi from the United States via London after a protracted absence of seven months and 13 days ... Zafrullah Khan told Press correspondents that the United Nations Representative in Kashmir … was to arrive in this sub-continent before the middle of May. He was expected in Lake Success before the current month was out, he added, where he would probably spend a week or ten days. …

The task of the UN Representative, the Foreign Minister told Pressmen, as laid down in the latest Security Council resolution on Kashmir, was to bring about an agreement on demilitarisation on both sides of the cease-fire line, and to implement it.

Asked what would be the way out if differences arose … regarding interpretation of … the demilitarisation agreement … Chaudhri Zafrullah Khan replied that the UN Representative had “full authority” to interpret the Agreement. — News agencies

Published in Dawn, April 24th, 2025