PAKISTAN INVITES INDIA TO BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS
British MP Warns Yahya
Pakistan has again invited India to begin negotiations on setting the dispute arising from New Dellh’s ban on overflights by Pakistani aircraft, it was officially stated in Islamabad Tuesday.
A note sent to the Indian High Commissioner on June 25 and released to the press here Thursday said since India wanted these talks to be held in New Delhi, Pakistan was ready to empower High Commissioner in India to start negotiations.
The International Civil Aviation Organisaton (ICAO) council passed a resolution last month calling on India and Pakistan to start bilateral talks and report progress to theICAO.
India banned overflights between East and West Pakistan last February after an Indian airlines place was hijacked by two Kashmiris and blown up at Lahore.
BRITISH M.P. WARNS.
Meanwhile from New Delhi British Parlimentarian Arthur Bottomley Thursday night warned President Yahya Khan of Pakistan against creating “another Vietnam” in East Pakistan.
Bottomley Who is heading four member house of Commons delegation on a visit to East Pakistan and India to investigate the East Pakistan crisis, told a meeting between Indian members of Parliament and pressmen.
We have been told time and again in India “what we don’t want in the border of India is become vietnem and I am sure the President of Pakistan brings a heavy reponsibility on himself if he doesn’t see that a peaceful solution is found to this (East Pakistan) problem”.
Reference : The Djakarta Times, 03.07.1971