PAKISTAN ACCUSATION.

Chronicle (Levin), 5 January 1948, Page 5

PAKISTAN ACCUSATION.

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■ Received SUndav, 7.30 p.m. KARACHI, Jan., 4. The Pakistan Premier, Liaquat Ali Ivhan, defending Pakistan 's action in Kashmir, said India was out tor-destroy Pakistan. "The Indian Government inerely paid lip servifee to the partition to get British tg-oops out of the eountry, " Mr. Khan said. "India systematicdlly sabotaged partition by the stoppage of such essential requirements as coal and rail transport. Pandit Nehru denied the report that Earl .Mountbatten ^kad threatened to resign lind had praposed partition for Kashmir. Pandit JXeh-ru added that there was no question -of Earl Moantbatten talking about partition and, $s for the question of liim resigning, it was just fantastic jtionsense. Case for India. Pandit Nehru told a Press conference that there were 50,000 invaders within Kashmir, and 100,000 inside the Pakistan bordei" were being trained and armed for the invasion. Under" interiiational law India would Oe perfectlv justilied in attacking these bases in self-defence, but had not done so, "because we are anxious to avoid enlarging the area of operations an'd increasing the complications. It is equally obvious that *no State can tolerate this soi't of thing for very long. " A West Punjab Government Press communique alleges that one Royai Indian Air Foree aircraft bombed five villages in the Sialkot district of West Punjab, across the horder from Jammu. Details were awaited, but considerable loss of life, property, and damage ij feared. Another aircraft had earlier . boiuhqd- another village . in tlie Sialkot distri40\Vi'tlKiut cahsing'casualties. Tlie eomhiunique addecl tliat Indian Dominion troops liad exchanged shots on the Kashmir border with West Punjab poiice, but there were no casualties.