KARACHI: Khwaja Shahabuddin, Pakistan Minister of the Interior, in a statement ... has declared Mr Nehru`s repeated allegations regarding the denial of freedom to PTI correspondents as `utterly unfounded` and a `complete travesty of facts`. The Minister ...

said that not a single correspondent was disaccredited. `All they have been asked to do is to regularise their position by getting themselves formally accredited to the Government,` he added. ...Khwaja Saheb said: `I hope Mr Nehru would realise the injustice he has done to Pakistan and withdraw his baseless accusations against the East Pakistan Government.

The statement recalls that in a Press Trust of India report, dated Feb 18 ... it was stated that `a number of correspondents ... in ...

East Pakistan, have been served with notice ... directing them not to function as Press representatives until they had been duly authorised by the Pakistan Government... .

On March 2 ... Mr Nehru stated that all correspondents of the Press Trust of India in East Pakistan had been dis-accredited and two of them had been ordered to cease functioning till accredited... . News agencies