KARACHI: The Pakistan Government have strongly protested to the Government of Bharat against an allegation made by Mr Rohini Kumar Chowdhry in his speech yesterday [March 8] in the Bharat Parliament that the Pakistan Government ‘were busy making preparations for war and had already occupied some portions of West Bengal and a police station in Assam’, it was reliably learnt in Karachi on Wednesday [March 8] evening.

In their protest the Pakistan Government … have characterised Mr Chowdhry’s repo­r­ted allegation as utterly false and mischievous and have pointed out that such baseless statements are likely to do incalculable harm to the relations between the two countries. Pakis­t­an’s protest which … is embodied in a telegram sent by the Prime Minister to Mr Ja­­waharlal Nehru, is further understood to have taken str­ong exception to Mr … Chowdhry’s open advocacy of war against Pakistan… .

Meanwhile political circles in Karachi, though not surprised by the open talk of war, … declare “the additional complications which such irresponsible and provocative utterances are likely to bring in their train”.

Published in Dawn, March 9th, 2025