UNITED NATIONS: The Security Council today [Nov 5] approved a resolution aimed at strengthening the Council`s demands for steps to resolve the India-Pakistan crisis. A five-nation resolution reaffirmed the Council`s Sept 20 resolution calling for a cease-fire, troops withdrawal and a political settlement of the Kashmir dispute. The resolution asked both India and Pakistan to end all military activity and to co-operate with the United Nations.

The Council called for a timetable and a timelimit for the withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani troops along the Indo-Pakistan frontier to the positions they held before Aug 5. The vote on the resolution was 9 in favour with the Soviet Union and Jordan abstaining. The Soviet abstention broke the Big-Power unanimity that has marked the Council`s deliberations on the crisis. The Soviet Union has been critical of the efforts by Secretary-General Thant on the crisis.

Jordan`s abstention was out of sympathy with Palcistan`s appeal that the Council tal(e steps to help solve the basic Kashmir question, to which there was no specific reference in the resolution.

Agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Ankara,] an emergency meeting of the Turkish Cabinet early today decided to call on the NATO Permanent Council and the UN Security Council to immediately discuss the worsening situation in Cyprus.

Unofficial reports here said Turkey would ask NATO to release some more arms and equipment tied to NATO for Turkey`s own use. Earlier, Foreign Minister Ihsan Sadri Gagliyangli told the Senate that Turkey has alerted her military units.

The Turkish Government would insist on the Greek Cypriots withdrawing from places they had occupied in the last few days, he said. Fear and tension deepened throughout Cyprus today following heavy exchange of fire between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in Famagusta at dawn today for the third time this week.