'War Help For Pakistanis’

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31150, 29 August 1966, Page 11

'War Help For Pakistanis ’

OV Z P A -Reuter—Copyright)

NEW DELHI, August 28.

Members of the Indian Parliament on Friday launched a sweeping attack on the United States, Britain and other Western countries, accusing them of giving Pakistan arms and moral support against India.

Some of them suggested; that India should have a; nuclear deterrent to counter: the war preparations they claimed Pakistan was making. They also voiced their fears of China, said to be working in collusion with Pakistan against India. One Independent member said China had taken over command of the army in the eastern wing of Pakistan and seemed to be planning to invade India from there and

| “gobble up Sikkim and Bhutan." | The defence debate, in the I Indian House of People, took | place almost one year after the border war broke out bej tween India and Pakistan. | It was overshadowed by the j ;Indian Government's recent) allegations of a “frantic”! Pakistani rms build-up and the recent reported sale of 90 Canadian-built Sabre jets to Pakistan via West Germany and Iran I Another independent memI ber described Britain as a ■ “traitor in the CommonI wealth,” who refused to ) recognise that Pakistani aggression caused the Indoi Pakistani war. ■ He accused the British Government of trying to persuade ‘ the United States to lift its current ban on arms supplies to Pakistan.