Seventy-five years ago Dixon`s report
2025-09-21
NEW DELHI: Premier Mrs Indira Gandhi ...
implicitly accused the United States of interfering in Indian affairs. Mrs Gandhi told a National Conference of Educators that there were some people far more powerful than we are, who wanted to change the sort of India we want to build. She went on, `some countries can take action and are taking action openly`. These countries ... felt they were free to interfere militarily in other countries and to use economic and political pressure. She said that while she did not want to comment on statements made abroad, it had been openly admitted that some Governments who did not like regimes in other countries believed they had the right to interfere. Observers saw her comments as an indirect reference to President Ford`s recent criticism on developments in India. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by our staff correspondent in Lahore,] the Federal Minister for Haj and Auqaf, Maulana Kausar Niazi, today [Sept 20] criticised the former Chief Minister of Punjab, Mr Haneef Ramay, accusing him of trying to whip up provincialism in Punjab.
Those ... who now appear to be so anxious about provincial autonomy for Punjab never advocated it earlier ... he added.KARACHI: UN Representative, Sir Owen Dixon, has submitted his report to the Security Council. Reporting failure he has reminded the Security Council that the presence of large forces on the ceasenre line `involved proximate danger to peace` but he has asked the Security Council not `to assist the parties to come to a settlement`.
Sir Owen has also said that although `the Security Council had made no such declaration`, he was `prepared to hold that the invasion of Kashmir by tribesmen on or about Nov 20, 1947, was contrary to international law`... . ... Sir Owen ... reported ... that all means of settling the dispute had been `exhausted` and ... Bharat and Pakistan be left to negotiate a settlement between themselves. News agencies [Meanwhile, according to a Press note by the Ministry of Finance,] a case has come to notice in which a banl( note of ... Rs 1,000, purporting to have been issued by the `Reserve Bank of Pakistan` was presented at a bank in a foreign country... . It may be notified for general information that the State Bank of Pakistan has not issued any notes of ... higher denomination than Rs 100/s