DISPUTE ON KASHMIR
Queen Asked To Mediate RAWALPINDI, Feb. 10. The Queen has been asked to mediate in the Kashmir dispute by Sheik Khalid Mahud, president of the Jammu-Kash-mir Muslim conference, according to a report by the Press of Pakistan news agency. He is said to have sent her a 200-word telegram saying that Britain had an obligation to “end the miseries” of 500,000 Kashmiri refugees who had been in exile for the last 14 years. It added that thousands of citizens of Kashmir had fought with the British in both world wars, and claimed that they bad been promised self-deter-mination by Earl Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of . India, Today the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will fly from Saidu Sharif to Rawalpindi for lunch with President Mohammed Ayub Khan, of Pakistan. This afternoon the President will accompany the Queen on a flight to Lahore, The Queen has a slight cold but no changes will be made in her itinerary.
More U.K. Communists.— An increase of 1509 in registered members of the British Communist Party was reported today by the “Daily Worker.” Re-registration had concluded with 27.561 members receiving their 1961 cards compared With 26.052 a year ago, the newspaper said. London. February 9.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29436, 11 February 1961, Page 13
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