PESHAWAR: A wild wave of enthusiasm and jubilation swept across the entire Waziristan Tribal Agency today [Jan 16] when the Pakistan Prime Minister Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, arrived with his goodwill mission into the heart of the mysterious land of the autonomous Waziri and Mahsud tribes. The indomitable Tribesmen`s attitude towards Pakistan `their own Islamic state` and their reaction to the withdrawal of Pakistan forces from their territory, was ... amply manifested by their rousing reception to the Pakistan Prime Minister on the successful culmination of the Muslims struggle for independence.

They impressed upon him the fact that despite the vigorous propaganda of interested parties and their frantic efforts to disrupt the solidarity of Muslims, [the] Tribal people were an integral part of the nation. Mr Liaquat Ali Khan accompanied by the Governor of the NWFP, Sir George Cunningham ... and the political resident for the Tribal territory, Col Khurshid, left in a Dakota at 9 a.m. for Miran Shah, the headquarters of the Tochi Scouts in North Waziristan about 150 miles south-west of Peshawar. News agencies