PARIS: The Aid-Pakistan Consortium meeting has brolcen up here after giving a distinctly frosty reception to the Pakistan Government`s request for an immediate commitment to support the Tarbela Dam project.

Both the World Bank and Pakistan were evidently embarrassed by the turn the meeting took, and the Bank has promised to consult the membercountries again before the end of the year with a view to securing some change in their attitude.

The consortium members are being asked to commit themselves now to finding very substantial sums of money ... for the main stages of the Tarbela project so that tenders for the whole job could be opened immediately, enabling work to get under way next year. The World Bank already has about 200 million dollars in the kitty to finance the early stages of the plan, which, according to one estimate, may cost around 500 million dollars.

A feature of the meeting was the irritation of several member-States with the World Banl< which, they felt, had sprung a major decision on them without due warning or time to study the dossier.

It may very well be, therefore, that af ter the initial pique has worn off they will take a more positive attitude towards the whole idea. Agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Kansas City, US,] a plot to put poison gas in the air conditioning system at New York`s United Nations headquarters was outlined to a court here trying three right-wing extremists.

`Minutemen` Robert Boliver Depugh, Walterop Peyson and Troy Houghton are charged with violating the National Firearms Act.