ISLAMABAD: President Mohammad ZiaulHaq reiterated Pakistan’s claim on Kashmir and pledged unceasing efforts for a political solution to a dispute with India over the region.
NEW DELHI, India: Indian Home (Interior) Minister Buta Singh said the government would not talk to any group on the future of Punjab until violence there had been defeated. More than 600 people have been killed in the north Indian State this week.
WASHINGTON: President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called for the United Nations Secretary General to undertake a personal mission to end the Iran Iraq war.
At the end of a two hour meeting with Thatcher, Reagan told reporters: “It is time for an immediate end to the Iran Iraq war and we believe that the United Nations Secretary General should personally undertake a mission to achieve that end”.
BANGKOK: Vietnam today welcomed Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja’s upcoming visit to Hanoi, Hanoi radio said.
In a broadcast monitored in Bangkok, the radio quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying
Yesterday that Mochtar would discuss bilateral relations and regional issues including the Kampuchean problem with Vietnamese officials.
NEW DELHI: Police entered the precincts of the Golden Temple in Amritsar and detained 25 Sikh freedom fighters, the Press Trust of India reported.
ROME: Italy’s highest court has annulled arrest warrants issued against American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus and two other executives of the Vatican bank accused of complicity in fraudulent bankruptcy.
ATLANTA: The U.S. Centers for disease control listed Aids among the leading causes of premature death in the United States for the first time.
LONDON: British Airways said it would acquire British aledonian Airmways for 380 million dollars to create a huge carrier capable of taking on the major United States airlines.
LHASA, CHINA: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived on the first official visit to Tibet by a Western head of government since Chinese Communist troops took controlling 1950.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 24, 1987
