Pakistan President General Ziaul Haq said that India and Pakistan should find a “just settlement of the problem of Jammu and Kashmir” in the spirit of improvement in the climate of relations between the two countries. He made this plea in his address to the plenary session of the seventh non-aligned summit.
With two more days more to go for the summit to be over, the non-aligned nations were divided over the venue of the next summit as well as the Indian Ocean question. The summit was finding it difficult to reconcile the serious differences that have erupted over Iraq’s demand to host the eight summit. Iraq offered to submit to arbitration its dispute with Iran.
Tensions ran high in parts of lower Assam’s Kamrup district following the kidnapping of five people in the last 48 hours, while the army continued the combing operations, recovering sizable quantity of arms and ammunition from the disturbed areas in the Mangaldoi subdivision. They seized eight guns, 40 cartridges, one spear, 50 detonators and 250 grams of gunpowder from a village in the worst-affected Mangaldoi subdivision.
The police were looking for three youths, at least two of them Sikhs, who were seen distributing pamphlets in Palika Bazar shortly before a crude country-made bomb exploded there. The blast in Palika Bazar injured six men and a woman. A blast at the Inter-State Bus Terminal about 15 minutes later did not cause any injuries, nor were any leaflets found to have been distributed there.
