KARACHI: The Government of Pakistan have agreed to the appointment of M Bakulin Ivan Nikolaevich as Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Pakistan, says ... the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... on Monday ... [Nov 21].

M Bakulin Ivan Nikolaevich was born in 1906. He graduated from Leningrade Engineering E conomic Institution and was a post-graduate scholar of this Institution.

Since 1939 he has been working under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. In 1940-42 he was Consul-General in Urumchi (China). From 1942 to 1949 he was chief of Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. From 1949-47 he was the Soviet Ambassador in Afghanistan. On relinquishing that charge, he was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USSR.

[Meanwhile as reported by news agencies in Cairo,] Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, President of the Azad Kashmir Government, told reporters here today [Nov 20] that Mr Nehru had `thwarted all attempts` by the United Nations Commission to mediate in the Kashmir dispute. He asserted that Mr Nehru `spurned the suggestion of President Truman and Mr Attlee for arbitration by bringing in irrelevant issues`.