CHICAGO: Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan`s Prime Minister declared here today [May 11] that Pakistan stood for stability in Asia. `We are opposed to aggression ... and we cannot contemplate with equanimity disruptive forces that might jeopardise the peaceful progress ... of the peoples of Asia,` he said. The Prime Minister was addressing the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations and the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry.

...[He] said Pakistan was interested in events both in South-East Asia and in the Middle East. `We have friendly relations with Thakin Nu`s Government in Burma and with the Nationalist Government in the United States of Indonesia to [whom] we are bound by a common religion. We would welcome the early rehabilitation of Japan`s economy. But we are equally desirous of peace and prosperity in Middle East countries, for many ties ... give us community of interest with them,` he declared.

Of Pakistan-Bharat relations, he said Pakistan was prepared at all times to submit all disputes to negotiation, mediation and arbitration in short, to the most peaceful and most reasonable methods... . -News agencies