CHRONOLOGY September-November 1964

Source: Pakistan Horizon , Fourth Quarter, 1964, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Fourth Quarter, 1964),
pp. 405-414
Published by: Pakistan Institute of International Affairs

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 CHRONOLOGY

September-November 1964

September 1 : Pakistan agreed in principle to conclude a gent

agreement with India for the restoration of peace al
the cease-fire line in Kashmir.

September 2 : The Indian Sarvodaya leader, Mr. Jai Parkash Narayan,

declared in New Delhi, that it would be most unrealistic
to put aisde the Kashmir dispute which was the main irri-
tant between India and Pakistan.

India accepted Pakistan's proposal to open negotiations

to bring about tranquillity on the disturbed Indo-Pakistan
borders.

September 3: The outline of the Rs. 5,200 crore Third Five-Year Plan
were released. It envisaged a minimum increase of 30
per cent in the national income of Pakistan over the period
1964-65 to 1969-70.

September 5 : Mr. Jai Parkash Narayan arrived in Rawalpindi on a

goodwill mission to Pakistan.

The second summit conference of the Arab countries

opened in Alexandria.

September 6 : The Pakistan Commerce Minister declared that the terms

offered by the Soviet Union for a trade agreement were
not acceptable to Pakistan.

The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Lai Bahadur Shastri,

told the Congress Parliamentary Party that the decision
regarding a summit meeting between India and Pakistan
would be taken after the conference of the Home Minis-
ters of the two countries.

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September 7 : At the conclusion of his talks with President Ayub of

Pakistan, Mr. Narayan said that a real possibility existed
for evoWing a workable approach to the outstanding
disputes between India and Pakistan.

September 8 : The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Zulfikar Ali

Bhutto, assailed the Indian Premier's accusation that the
Foreign Minister was speaking in a vein different from
that of President Ayub.

The ruling Congress Party Government in the Indian

State of Kerala was voted out of office.

September 1 1 : In the communique issue at the conclusion of the

Alexandria summit conference, the Arab Heads of State
announced their decision to immediately implement a
project to divert the waters of the Jordan River.

September 13 : It was announced in New Delhi that, under the arms agree-
ment concluded earlier in Moscow, India would get
three squadrons of an improved type of MIG aircraft
from the Soviet Union.

September 14: It was officially announced in Karachi that President

Ayub had accepted an invitation to visit the Soviet Union.

September 15: The Indian Government rejected Pakistan's offer to divert

Karachi-bound ships bringing American wheat to India.

The Indian Foreign Minister announced his Government's

decision to assist the South Vietnamese Government in
its fight against the Vietcong.

September 17: Miss Fatima Jinnah accepted the Combined Opposition

Parties' request for nomination as a candidate for the
Presidential election in Pakistan.

The Soviet Union vetoed in the Security Council a

Western sponsored resolution to ease tension between
Indonesia and Malaysia.

September 18: The Indian Prime Minister declared in the Lok Sabha
that there was no change in India's stand on Kashmir.

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September 19: In a Joint Communique issued at the conclusion of the

Indonesian President's talks with President Ayub, it was
stated that the two leaders had called for an early solution
of the Kashmir dispute "in accordance with the wishes of
the people of the State, as envisaged in the Resolutions of
the Security Council which both India and Pakistan had
accepted."

September 20 : Mr. Z. A. Bhutto announced that Pakistan would soon

develop bilateral relations with Indonesia on the pattern
of RCD.

A 13-member Parliamentary delegation from Pakistan

reached Moscow on a 15-day official visit to the Soviet
Union.

Afghanistan's Loe Jirga adopted a new constitution

which barred members of the royal family from joining
political parties.

September 21 : The Malaysian Prime Minister declared that Malaysia

would welcome any Afro-Asian move to achieve peace
between Malaysia and Indonesia.

Malta became independent.

September 22 : General Cariappa, former Chief of the Staff of the Indian

Army, said in Dacca that Hindus, Christians and Buddhists
in East Pakistan were living peacefully.

Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammed, former Premier of Occu-

pied Kashmir, and five other MPs were arrested in
Srinagar under the Indian emergency rules.

September 23 : The West Bengal Government served quit notices to more

than 300,000 Pakistanis working in factories and work-
shops in the Indian State.

The Indian Foreign Minister declared in the Lok Sabha

that India was sympathetic to Anglo-American proposals
to establish naval bases in the Indian Ocean.

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September 26: The Indian Foreign Minister accepted Mr. Bhutto's

invitation to visit Rawalpindi for an early meeting with
him.

September 29 : President Ayub said that the completion of the Pakistan-

Iranian boundary demarcation was another step towards
the promotion of unity and solidarity of the people of
Iran and Pakistan.

The UAR and India signed in Cairo an agreement for

cooperation in the production of supersonic aircraft.

September 30: France offered financial and technical assistance to

Pakistan for the construction of a 72-megawatt nuclear
plant at Rooppur in East Pakistan.
The Pakistan Minister for Works disclosed in Karachi
that China and Pakistan were making efforts to reopen
the old caravan route between Sinkiang and Gilgit.

October 1 : The United States Senate approved a $3,250 million

foreign aid appropriation bill.

October 2 : At the end of a three-day conference in Tunis, Algeria,

Morrocco, Libya and Tunisia agreed to coordinate their
economies and industries on the lines of RCD.

The British Prime Minister declared in Manchester that

there could be no international disarmament arrangement
without China.

October 5 : The United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant, welcom-

ed the formation of RCD between Pakistan, Iran and
Turkey as a step towards healthy regional cooperation.

Pakistan signed an agreement with the Export-Import

Bank of Japan providing for a credit of $30 million
for the final year of Pakistan's Second Five-Year Plan.

The Second Conference of non-aligned countries opened

in Cairo.

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October 6: The Pakistan Finance Minister declared in Karachi,

on his return from a world tour that Pakistan would
continue to get economic aid from the Aid-to-Pakistan
Consortium without any difficulty.

The Pakistan Education Minister announced in Rawalpindi

that Pakistan and Japan would exchange more cultural
delegations to strengthen ties between the two countries.

October 7 : The Pakistan Government decided to ban all export trade

with South Africa.

China agreed to equip 22,000 men of the Cambodian

armed forces with light and heavy weapons.

October 9 : At the Cairo summit of non-aligned nations the Ceylonese

Prime Minister, Mrs. Bandaranaike, proposed a nuclear
free zone in the Indian Ocean.

China declared its willingness to enter into negotiations

with India on the border dispute on the basis of the
Colombo proposals.

October 11: The Chinese Premier, Mr. Chou En-lai, told a Ceylonese
Parliamentary delegation in Peking that Pakistan's fears
about arms aid to India were reasonable.

October 12: Mr. Lai Bahadur Shastri broke journey in Karachi on

his way back to New Delhi from Cairo. In a joint state-
ment issued at the end of the Indian Prime Minister's
talks with President Ayub, the two leaders agreed that it
was necessary to settle outstanding disputes between
India and Pakistan.

October 13 : The Rumanian Prime Minister, Mr. Ion Gheorghe Maurer,

arrived on a three-day official visit to Pakistan.

October 14: The United States and Pakistan signed an agreement

which provided for an American loan of $3.4 million to
Pakistan, for the improvement of facilities at Chittagong
port.

In a joint communique issued at the conclusion of Mr.

Maurer's visit to Pakistan, the Rumanian Premier and

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President Ayub "reiterated their dedication to the right

of self-determination of peoples."

October 15: Mr. Nikita Khrushchev was ousted from power in

Moscow. He was replaced by Mr. Alexi Kossygin as
the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, and Mr. Leonid
Brezhnev as the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist
Party.

October 16: Pakistan, Iran and Turkey signed an agreement in

Teheran under the RCD programme for the abolition of
visas between one another.

China exploded its first atomic bomb.

The Labour Party won the British general elections.

October 18: The United States rejected China's call for a world
summit to destroy all nuclear weapons.

October 19: The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mr. Feridun Cemal

Erkin, arrived on a four-day official visit to Pakistan.

October 20: After a three-day meeting in Karachi, the delegates from

the RCD countries adopted the draft constitution of
the Joint Chamber of Commerce.

Rumania agreed in principle to offer economic assistance

to Pakistan.

October 22: Khwaja Nazimuddin, a former Governor-General of

Pakistan, died in Dacca.

The Pakistan Government constituted an Election Com-

mission to conduct elections to the office of the President.

Mr. Feridun Erkin expressed the hope that more nations

would join RCD.

October 23 : The British Government announced that it was not

opposed to U Thant's idea of holding a conference of t
nuclear powers including China.

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October 24: The former British territory of North Rhodesia became

independent as the Republic of Zambia.

October 26: China agreed to grant an interest-free loan of Rs. 20

million to Ceylon.
The new Labour Government in Britain decided to impose
a temporary surcharge of on all imports other than food-
stuffs.

October 27 : A nine-member delegation from Pakistan left for China

to negotiate purchases under the $60 million Chinese
loan.

October 29 : The Ceylonese Prime Minister and Mr. Lai Bahadur

Shahstri signed an agreement on the future of persons of
Indian origin in Ceylon.

October 30: The Chinese Foreign Minister, during a stopover in

Karachi, reiterated China's stand in favour of a plebiscite
in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The military regime in Sudan was liquidated and a new

civilian government headed by Al-Khatim Al Khalifa was
formed.

October 31: In a message to Mr. Chou En-lai, President de Gaulle of

France, reaffirmed his willingness to take part in any
discussion on nuclear disarmament with China.

November 3 : Mr. Said Hasan, leader of the Pakistan delegation which

visited Peking, disclosed that Premier Chou En-lai gave
indications that China would be willing to increase the
present $60 million interest-free loan to Pakistan.

November 4: Mr. Lyndon B. Johnson was re-elected President of the

United States.

November 5 : A section of the British press disclosed that India was

definitely using American arms on the Kashmir front
against Pakistan.
Mr. Chou En-lai arrived in Moscow as head of the
Chinese delegation to the anniversary celebrations of the
Russian revolution.

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November 6: Pakistan and Czechoslovakia signed an agreement in

Karachi for the import of Czech industrial equipment
worth £5 million.

November 8 : President Ayub said in Lahore that Pakistan was ex-

tremely concerned over India's design to use the Canadian
atomic reactor for producing nuclear weapons.

November 9 : Shaikh Abdullah, the Kashmiri leader, warned the Indian

Government that if the Kashmir problem was not solved
peacefully a struggle would be launched for the liberation
of the state.

Mr. Habib Bourguiba was re-elected President of Tunisia

for the third term.

Mr. Lisaku Sato who succeeded Mr. Ikeda as the Prime

Minister of Japan, formed a new Cabinet.

November 10: Violent riots over food shortage broke out in the Indian
state of Kerala.

The Kenyan Senate unanimously passed the constitution

Amendment Bill to make Kenya a Republic.

November 1 1 : The Pakistan Foreign Minister expressed the hope that

the new Soviet leadership would revise its stand on
Kashmir.

Pakistan strongly protested to the Indian Government

against the extension of more Indian laws to the occupied
state of Jammu and Kashmir.

November 13: Premier Chou En-lai and the leaders of the Soviet Union
agreed on postponing ¿definitely the preparatory meet-
ing of the 26 Communist Parties scheduled for 15 De-
cember 1964.

November 14: The Pakistan Foreign Minister declared that, in order to

meet the situation arising out of the military build up in
India, Pakistan would need to draw up a Master Plan on
the basis of national interests of the country.
Syria called for an urgent meeting of the Security Council
after the Israeli attacks on its borders.

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November 15: General Ibrahim Abboud resigned as Head of State

of Sudan and handed over power to the new civilian
cabinet.

The Soviet Union warned that it would take counter

measures to ensure the security of the Communist world
if the projected NATO multilateral forces were set up.

November 16: It was officially stated in Rawalpindi that the Indian

Muslims evicted from Assam during the period May 1962
to November 1964 numbered 120, 867.

November 17: Pakistan lodged a strong protest with the Labour G

vernment in Britain against the massive British arms aid
to India.

After peace talks with India had failed, the Nagas asked
the Indian Government to quit Nagaland.

Britain decided to place an embargo on the export of

armaments to South Africa.

November 18: Malaysia announced its decision to ban all ships and
planes carrying cargo to Indonesia from calling at
Malaysian ports from 1 January 1965.

The British House of Commons agreed to continue con-

trol of immigration from the Commonwealth for another
year.

November 20: The Pakistan Foreign Minister rejected Mr. Narayan's

proposal for a separate status for Kashmir.

At the conclusion of the Indian Defence Minister's visit

to London, it was announced that Britain would assist
the Indian Navy in respect of its requirement of a "modern
submarine" and to "replace a number of ageing ships in
her fleet."

November 21 : President Ayub told the visiting Russian Deputy Foreign

Minister, Mr. Sergie Lapin, of the threat posed to Pakistan
by the Indian military build up.

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November 22: At the end of his visit to Pakistan, Mr. Lapin expressed
the hope that relations between Pakistan and the Soviet
Union would be further improved.

November 23 : The RCD countries agreed at a meeting in Istanbul to

set up a joint shipping venture to operate on selected
international routes.

November 24: In the Congo, Belgian paratroops and white mercenaries

of the Congolese forces landed at the rebel-held town
of Stanleyville.

November 25 : Mr. Z. A. Bhutto declared in Rawalpindi that Pakistan

would not under any circumstances accept India's usurpa-
tion of territory in Jammu and Kashmir.

November 27 : The Pakistan Government strongly denied Indian allega-

tions that Pakistan was training the Nagas in the technique
of guerilla warfare.

Talks between Nepal and India, on the question of transit

facilities for Nepal-Pakistan trade through Radhikapur
in India, ended in failure.

November 29 : Mr. Z. A. Bhutto stated in Rawalpindi that India's failure

to grant transit facilities to Nepal was another example
of India's double faced policy.
November 30: The Election Commission of Pakistan announced that the
Presidential elections in the country would be held on
2 January 1965.
It was announced in Paris that the French Prime Minister
would visit Pakistan in February 1965.
Shaikh Abdullah and Maulvi Farooq, Chairman of the
Awami Action Committee in the Indian-held Kashmir,
announced in Srinagar their decision to coordinate their
efforts for the liberation of Kashmir.

The Indian Defence Minister announced that India

would spend about Rs. 50,000 million on defence over th
next five years.

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