NEW YORK: Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan Prime Minister, has told the India League of America that Pakistan had no intention of taking the Kashmir issue out of the United Nations hands, usually reliable sources said today [May 8]. A delegation of the League headed by its President, Sirdar J. J. Singh, met the Prime Minister for about an hour yesterday. [They] were believed to have discussed Pakistan-Bharat problems. The Prime Minister was said to have assured the India League thathe and the Pakistan Government, would do their best to solve peacefully all disputes between the two countries. ...

Without peace between Pakistan and Bharat the progress of Asia ... and even world peace would be affected, he [reportedly] said. The Prime Minister was said to have expressed the view that there was only one major problem between Bharat and Pakistan Kashmir. ...

Regarding Kashmir, [he] was believed to have said that ... speculation ... about the possibility of the plebiscite being given up was entirely baseless... . ... The Prime Minister was understood to have replied with an emphatic `no` when a member of the delegation asked whether Pakistan would agree to ... a partition of [Kashmir]. News agencies