RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Bhutto today [Oct 27] said his talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow this week will not bring any change in Pakistan’s foreign policy or in Pakistan’s fri­e­ndly relations with China. …[T]he Prime Min­ister said Pakistan wishes friendly relations with all the three super Powers and her forei­gn policy was based on principle. She will continue to develop this policy. He said this po­­int was discussed at Moscow extensively and he explained to the Russian friends … that Pak­istan’s foreign policy was not momentary or based on expediency. Pakistan could not bring about any change in her friendly rel­ations with China. … Besides … Pakistan has good relations with America also.

[Meanwhile, as reported by the staff reporter in Karachi,] the Governor of Baluchistan, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, said … that Afghanistan was infiltrating trained persons into Baluchistan in a bid to incite and train the local people in subversive activities. Addressing a Press conference at his Gizri residence, he, however, said that Baluch were patriotic Pakistanis and were now seeing through the game and would … frustrate all such attempts.

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2024