KARACHI: It is understood that fresh proposals for a plebiscite in Kashmir following a ceasefire have been made by the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan to the Governments of India and Pakistan.

Reactions of both the Governments are now awaited. ... Dr Alfredo Lozano, the Columbian Member of the Commission ...

has come to discuss the proposals... .

Interviewed on his arrival in Karachi yesterday [Dec 20], [Foreign Minister] Chaudhri Mohammad Zafrullah Khan said he was unable to give his reactions until he had consulted his Government. Dawn staff correspondent [Meanwhile, according to news agencies from Batavia (Jakarta),] The United Nations Good Offices Committee in war-torn Java charged the Dutch today [Dec 20] with breaking the 11-month old Renville Truce Agreement by their military campaign launched on Saturday [Dec 18] against the Indonesian Republic. ... In Singapore ... Indonesian Republicans threatened a scorched earth policy in Indonesia which would `bring chaos to the whole country`. ... In a long guerrilla war, they said, the Dutch would find it difficult to re-establish their colonial organisation.