CHICAGO: Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s Prime Minister declared here today [May 11] that Pakistan stood for stability in Asia. “We are opposed to aggression … and we cannot contemplate with equanimity disruptive forces that might jeopardise the peaceful progress … of the peoples of Asia,” he said. The Prime Minister was addressing the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations and the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry.

…[He] said Pakistan was interested in events both in South-East Asia and in the Middle East. “We have friendly relations with Thakin Nu’s Government in Burma and with the Nationalist Government in the United States of Indonesia to [whom] we are bound by a common religion. We would welcome the early rehabilitation of Japan’s economy. But we are equally desirous of peace and prosperity in Middle East countries, for many ties … give us community of interest with them,” he declared.

Of Pakistan-Bharat relations, he said Pak­is­tan was prepared at all times to submit all di­­sputes to negotiation, mediation and arbitration — in short, to the most peaceful and most reasonable methods… .

Published in Dawn, May 12th, 2025