KARACHI: Mr Ghulam Mohammad on his return to the Capital on Wednesday [Jan 18] said that the realisation ... that nationalistic sentiments of the people of South-East Asia be respected and their economic and social standards be raised was the most important contribution made by the Colombo Conference. The Leader of the Pakistan delegation to the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers` conference declared that neither the conference nor its deliberations were aimed at creating an anti-Communist bloc.

From the ... discussions on Indo-China, [he] told newsmen, that ... Pakistan ... had gained `a lot of knowledge`... . Staff correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Oslo,] Norwegian ... experts will be sent to Pakistan to help ... develop its fisheries, the Norwegian Government said on Tuesday [Jan 17]. Acting on a request from Pakistan, the Government decided to send a Fishery Commission to Pakistan `consisting of a biologist, a technologist preferably a chemist with a knowledge of freezing fish and meat and the canning industry and a practical fisherman with a knowledge of the most important fishing methods. ...