LAKE SUCCESS: Chaudhri Zafrullah Khan, today [Feb 9] told ... the Security Council here discussing Kashmir with reference to General McNaughton`s report that the Azad Kashmir forces were not an unorganised rebel population. They were a fighting force that had put up a gallant struggle against the Indian Army for many months. The Prime Minister of India himself, he said, had expressed ... some apprehension that once a cease-fire had come into operation, such a large force, if not completely controlled ...

might constitute a danger. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Calcutta,] the police opened fire ... to disperse riotous mobs indulging in looting, arson and assaultsin areas affected by yesterday`s [Feb 9] disturbances in the city.

About a dozen persons were injured as a result of the firing, one of whom later died in hospital. Forty-four ... were admitted to hospital since midnight yesterday, and of these three later succumbed to their injuries. ...

Over 125 persons were arrested ... . Besides ten cases of arson, there were several cases of looting of shops, stray assaults and stabbing... .