`T HE Government of India have categorically declined to implement the financial settlement arrived at between them and Pakistan a few days ago. They refuse to hand over Rs 55 crores, the share of the Pakistan Government in cash balances ...,` said Sir Mohammad Zafarullah, Foreign Minister, addressing a Press conference in Karachi on Thursday [Jan 1]. In spite of these grave provocations, the Foreign Minister said, Pakistan would endeavour to maintain friendly relations with the Dominion of India, but not at the cost of dignity, honour and self-respect.

Apropos of the reported decision of the Government of the Indian Union to raise the question of Kashmir in the Security Council of the UNO, Sir Zafarullah Khan said that Pakistan would insist that the UNO deals with the whole problem of Indo-Pakistan relations in all its facets and not only with an isolated facet that Kashmir was. Dawn Special Correspondent [Meanwhile, according a report from Dawn`s London Office,] British political quarters, both of ficial and unof ficial, are unhappy over India`s reference to the UNO Security Council against Pakistan over the Kashmir issue. An official comment made to Dawn today was: `India has cast the die.