KARACHI: A spokesman of the Pakistan Foreign office today [July 13] ... denied the report published in the Indian Press that the Pakistan Government had refused permission to the ill-fated KLM Constellation which crashed in Bombay on Tuesday [July 12] to proceed onward to Karachi and that the plane was ... diverted to Bombay. The spokesman ...

said that an unofficial approach was made to Pakistan by the KLM authorities asking if permission would be given to the plane to proceed to Karachi, to which the Pakistan Government replied ... that the necessary permission would definitely be given. However, the spokesman concluded, later on no officialapproachwasmade totheGovernment in this connection. News agencies [A news agency adds from Hong Kong:] Mrs Dorothy Brandon ... charged today [July 12] that the Dutch Constellation which `crashed in Bombay was sabotaged by the Indonesians`. Mrs Brandon was one of the American correspondents who made a tour of Indonesia at the invitation of the Dutch Government. She and William Matthews ...

were the only two members who did not start back aboard the Constellation. She said that the newsmen had offended the Indonesians by publishing the Dutch version of the Indonesian conflict.