NEW DELHI: The United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan today [March 23] scrutinised the proposals submitted by the Pakistan Government with regard to a permanent truce line. It is expected that before the Plebiscite Administrator, Admiral Chester Nimitz, takes up his work, the draft agreement of a permanent truce line to replace the present provisional line will be ready. The progress of the working out of a truce agreement, is however, dependent ... on ...thestatusofthe AzadKashmirGovernment and the disbandment of the Azad forces.

These two points are expected to be ...

thrashed out jointly with the Indian and Pakistan Government`s representatives ... in April. The Sub-Committee of the Commission, which is touring Azad Kashmir territory, is expected to return here on March 28. The Truce Sub-Committee is expected to give a final shape to the draft agreement in Srinagar where it may go in the middle of April.

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in Rawalpindi,] `I welcome the choice of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz as Plebiscite Administrator... ,` said Chaudhri Mohammad Zafrullah Khan, Pakistan`s Foreign Minister... .