KARACHI: Khwaja Nazimuddin, the Governor-General of Pakistan, addressing the 89th annual meeting of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday [April 13], declared that while the Government considered the association of Pakistanis in trade essential, it ... never had [] intended to discriminate against foreign firms, established in Pakistan.

The Governor-General deplored the suggestion that Pakistan had been “coerced into trade agreements with India”. He said he would not pretend that political relations with India were as friendly as he would have wished, but it had been the constant endeavour of the Pakistan Government to foster “friendship and good neighbourliness”. — Dawn staff correspondent

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Rawalpindi,] there is no provision in the Cease-Fire Agreement for the disbandment or disarming of Azad Forces, said an official spokesman today [April 13]… . Press messages from India, he said, do not always give a true picture of the trend of negotiations with the UNCIP and sometimes distort the basic fact on which these … are based.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2024