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No transit to India

QUETTA: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has said no transit facilities of any 1(ind had been given to India ‘because that is not just normalisation. That goes beyond normalisation’... . The Prime Minister said this while speaking at a reception ... [at] the Command and Staff College here this evening [Aug 3]. [He said] ... ‘we have not agreed to give transit trade facilities to India by road’. He said the Indian railway arrangements also ceased at the border. ... Mr Bhutto said Pakistan stood for normalisation of relations with India but it could not brook any compromise on the ... Kashmir issue. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Rawalpindi,] Army detachments have been deployed in all flood-affected areas of the country to conduct rescue operations in assistance of civil authorities. Army medical teams have also been detailed in the af fected areas to provide medical assistance... . The overall flood situation in the NWFP slightly improved today [Aug 3] as the flood water receded in most affected areas... . ... The road and rail traffic between Peshawar and Rawalpindi however, remained suspended . due to damaged roads and rail tracks.