OTTAWA: `The ideals of a freedom-loving, democratic but young and underdeveloped country like Pakistan could be epitomised in three words `Peace, Progress and Co-operation`,` declared Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, when he addressed both Houses of the Canadian Parliament in the House of Commons Chamber today [May 31].

The Prime Minister added: `These three are but the aspects of the same fundamental urge, for there can be no progress without peace; no peace without progress, and without removing the economic disequilibrium so apparent in Asia, which keeps more than half the world in poverty and ferment of discontent, and neither without international cooperation which we believe to be the greatest need of all countries, great and small.

He was sure that Pakistan could look forward to a long period of friendship with Canada, and that in any joint moral undertaking to promote the welfare of mankind and goodwill and peace among nations, Pakistan and Canada would be more than friends. Mr Liaquat Ali Khan [said] ... that no practical person would wish wantonly for the disintegration of the Commonwealth of Nations. APP staff correspondent