LONDON: Chaudhri Khaliquzzaman, President of the Pakistan Muslim League, said here today [Oct 31] that during his recent tour of Middle East countries he had found there was `a general search for some method of stabilising the Muslim States and strengthening them`. Chaudhri Khaliquzzaman, who arrived in London by air from Cairo last night after a six weeks` tour, said in an interview, he had met a number of Kings, Presidents[,] Prime Ministers and leading politicians and industrialist[s], many of whom had expressed `Agreement on the grouping of Middle East States. `Not one of them expressed any opposition to this idea, he said.

Of the idea of Islamistan, [Mr] Khaliguzzaman said, there was a general appreciation ... but there are different views about the means and methods that should be pursued for realising it. `During my tour, I tried to find whether there is in the Arab world a majority opinion for the establishment of Islamistan. []The peoples of the Middle East have seriously started discussing the idea and ways for the grouping of Middle East States.` News agencies