This, according to competent quarters, is actually what the Indians mean by a “political settlement” of the Kashmir dispute.

Pakistan is said to be not averse to considering dispassionately the partition proposal, provided it was precise and motivated with a sincere desire to hammer out a solution in consonance with the fundamental issue involved.

India, thus, will have to spell out on what lines it wants the partition of Jammu and Kashmir State to be effected.

Pakistan will then judge the merit of the Indian proposal.—Staff Correspondent

Food for thought! GENEVA: A leading scientist estimated yesterday that if all the 3.15 million people in the world ate at the same table, it would encircle the globe 23-and-a-half times. And at the present population growth, the table would double in length by the year 2,000.

Dr R.W. Phillips, an expert on world agricultural problems and Scientific Secretary of the Science and Technology Conference here, told delegates that to keep up with the growth in the number of consumers, the table would have to grow 43 miles longer every day.—Agencies