LAHORE:Dr.HenryKissinger,USSecretary of State, said here tonight [Aug 8] that the security, territorial integrity and independence of Pal(istan ‘are a matter of great concern for the United States’. Replying to Prime Minister Bhutto’s speech at a banquet, Dr Kissinger said that Pakistan was the country which had made it possible for the US to launch her initiative towards China it was the important initiative for peace of the world, and the US would never forget the role played by Pal(istan.
This was a reference to Dr Kissinger’s dramatic visit to China in 1971, when he flew to Peking from Islamabad. ... The Secretary of State also paid tributes to the leadership of Prime Minister Bhutto and said ‘we 1(now how he (Mr. Bhutto) took over his country in a most tragic and desperate period and how he has turned it to international respect, to self-confidence, and to a more important role than it has ever played before’. Earlier .
the Prime Minister said there would be no compromise on the historic issue of Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan, because such a compromise would only create problems... . Lahore Bureau