UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has asked the UN Security Council to disregard Bangladesh`s application for UN membership, until Dacca freed all Pakistani prisoners of war and other detainees, and also ensured the rights of the ethnic and linguistic minorities, it was announced today [Aug 21]. ... Meanwhile, a Bangladeshi spokesman reiterated in London today [Aug 21] that the Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, would not be willing to meet President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto without Pakistan`s formal recognition of Bangladesh.

[Media] quoted informed sources as saying that efforts were being made to bring about a meeting of the two leaders in September through common friends. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Lahore,] The Central Minister for Political Affairs and Communications, Mr Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, said ... that for the present there was no question of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-i-Islam joining the Central Government. ... He said `broad principles` for co-operation between the Central and Provincial Governments in Baluchistan and NWFP had been agreed to between the leaders of the People`s Party, NAP and JUL. .