KARACHI: The Pakistan Prime Minister on Thursday [July 26] offered a five-point peace plan to the Bharati Prime Minister `for the restoration of a peaceful atmosphere and establishment of friendly relations between the two countries on a permanent basis`. Mr Liaquat Ali Khan also invited Mr Jawaharlal Nehru to come to Karachi ... to discuss any provisions of the plan after the latter had taken `the first and most essential step for relieving the present tension` namely withdrawal of Bharati troops to peacetime stations. Categorically asserting that Pakistan had no intention of attacking Bharati territory, Mr ... Khan said: `Both of us have made similar declarations before. These have produced no results because time and again you have threatened the security of Pakistan ... .

The Pakistan Prime Minister hoped that `in the interest of international peace and friendly relations` ... Mr Nehru would accept his offer `without reserve or qualification`.

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in Cairo,] Plans to raise an army of Mujaheds from all parts of the Muslim world to defend Pakistan if there was war with Bharat are understood to be well in hand.