KARACHI: The Government of Pakistan in a Note to the Royal Afghan Government, have strongly repudiated charges that Pakistan had violated the International usage and practice relating to the Afghan trade through Pakistan, it was authoritatively learned. On the contrary ... the Government of Pakistan have scrupulously adhered to the relevant provision of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1921 and the AngloAfghan Trade Convention of 1923 despite grave provocations and baseless allegations made by ... the Afghan Government.

The Government of Pakistan, the Note adds, have throughout shown special consideration to Afghan trade which could not be validly claimed on grounds of normal commercial usage and in many cases exports have been allowed of commodities which Pakistan herself could not spare and which in several cases, had been imported from hard currency areas.

The Afghan Government ... charged ...

Pakistan ... with having created difficulties ... in the matter of draw-back of customs duty on their purchase of petroleum, withdrawal of rebate in the freight charges on petrol, construction of bodies on Afghan lorries in Pakistan and suspension of petrol supply to Afghanistan. News agencies