There was no issue of the paper on Oct 20, 1951, out of respect for the late prime minister L iaqu at Ali K ha n. T he excer pt be low is from the previous day`s edition.NEW DELHI: Bharati Prime Minister Pandit Nehru said here on Wednesday [Oct 17] that Mr Liaquat Ali Khan`s death should hush up controversies that existed between Bharat and Pakistan and `enable us to view the picture in truer perspective and, keeping our honour and self-respect and our interests always in view, still enable us to go towards settlement`. Pandit Nehru, who was addressing the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress ... said: `Our relations with Pakistan have been bad, although we have tried our best to improve them and to come to a peaceful settlement... . Let us not forget that, although many matters remain unsolved, we have, from time to time, come to settlements with Pakistan about particular matters. ...

`For a moment controversies, which we have with Pakistan, are forgotten and we think only of the old colleague, coming from this very part of the country, with whom we have co-operated in many ways ...` News agencies