Pak bid to implicate India deplored

New Delhi: An official spokesman today deplored Pakistan trying to implicate India in the conspiracy case currently before a special court in Dacca against certain leaders in East Pakistan.

He averred that the charges against India “are entirely false”, and it “is very unfortunate” that India should have been dragged. He said the Pakistan government might have its own reasons to charge some of its citizens with conspiracy against the state but trying to involve India in this “unsavoury affair” was not likely to help in the improvement of relations between the two countries.

The spokesman said India liked to see stability in Pakistan and also hoped that Pakistan would entertain similar sentiments about this country.

On the overall IndiaPakistan relations, the spokesman said “while there had been no progress there had also been no deterioration.”

It was hoped that the recent talks on the eastern river waters would be the beginning of a dialogue. The Pakistan engineers, he said, were currently visiting the site of Farakka Barrage and it was expected that the Indian engineers would be invited to the site of proposed barrages in East Pakistan soon.

Answering a question, he said Pakistan had not indicated so far when they would send delegation to consider the question of resumption of air services between the two countries.