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.

[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 was stated, will start functioning immediately 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.

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2024