KARACHI: `Early plebiscite in Kashmir` would be the stand of Pakistan in the Security Council when the Kashmir issue came up before it, declared Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, President of the Azad Kashmir Government, last night [Oct 27], on his arrival from Rawalpindi at Karachi Airport. Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan told the [news agency] that Pakistan would assent to any device `which brings the plebiscite nearer`.

Pakistan would urge the Security Council, he added, to implement its earlier decisions and resolutions on a fair and impartial plebiscite in Kashmir and to give to the people of Kashmir their right of self-determination.

News agencies [Meanwhile, according to a staff correspondent in Karachi,] the Pakistan National Bank Ordinance of the Central Government is likely to be promulgated in the second week of next month, it was reliably learnt in Karachi on Thursday [Oct 27]. The proposed banks, it wasstated,willstartfunctioningimmediately after the promulgation of the Ordinance. The Government`s scheme to provide credit facilities to jute traders through a Board with wide powers as an Executive Agency, is understood to have been receiving final touches by the State Bank of Pakistan.