TEHERAN: Iran on Thursday [June 28] asked President Truman to use his good offices in its oil dispute with Britain and … protested to Iraq against the presence of the British cruiser Mauritius off the Iranian oil port of Abadan. Iranian Foreign Minister Bagher Kazemi called in US Ambassador Henry Grady … and handed him a letter from Premier Mohammed Mossadeq to President Truman inviting American mediation… .

Then Kazemi called in Ibrahim Fauzzi, Charge d’Affaires of … Iraq, and protested against the presence of the British cruiser Mauritius in the Shatt el Arab river… . — News agencies

[As reported by news agencies from Sialkot,] Pakistan Border Police killed four and wounded many Bharati Army trespassers when they forced them to withdraw from Pakistan territory after four hours of continuous exchange of fire on the evening of June 26… . The trespassers stole into a village near Zafarwal on the Pakistan-Jammu border under cover [of] gunfire and challenged the inhabitants to clear out after surrendering their belongings. A Pakistani Border Police patrol reached the spot … and forced the Bharatis to retreat.

Published in Dawn, June 29th, 2026