According to London’s Daily Mail, “the project is intended to be a long-term solution to the strategic problems of the entire sub-continent, and an air advisory mission is to visit both India and Pakistan. But the political problems of the buildup must be thrashed out first. There must be some sort of agreement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir.

However, should the British and American Governments now accept India’s demand that Pakistan’s pleas regarding Kashmir and Western military aid to the Indian armed forces should be ignored, Mr Nehru’s determination not to give up Kashmir would be strengthened.

India at present expects from the West over 1,000 million dollars worth of military aid during the next 18 months. This assistance would be in addition to the 120 million worth of infantry and air force equipment promised to India at the recent Kennedy-Macmillan meeting in the Bahamas for use against China in a possible offensive in the Himalayas next spring.

Mr S.K. Dehlavi, Pakistan Foreign Secretary who is due here for talks with British leaders and senior officials next week, is expected to make it clear that should India get all the military and economic aid it is seeking from the West without any preconditions, the Indo-Pakistan talks on Kashmir would be doomed to failure. Moreover, such a situation may even compel Pakistan to undertake a drastic reappraisal of its foreign policy.—Correspondent