Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Pakistan M. A. H. Ispahani, and Richard Gatewood

s/s 598 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Memorandum of Conversation 216 DATE: July 30, 1951 SUBJECT: Pakistan Government Views on Recent Indian Troops Movements 860 PARTICIPANTS: Mr. M. A. H. Ispahani, Ambassador of Pakistan The Secretary SOA - Mr. Gatewood AND ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS AND COPIES TO: s/s CIA S/A DRN G Embassies: Karachi NEA London FE New Delhi SOA Kabul UNP u. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-61120-1 The Ambassador called at his request to report his government is grave apprehension over recent Indian troops movements and stayed for twenty minutes. He said that almost all India's fighting forces had now been con- centrated near the borders of Pakistan and that his government (which had been forced to take defensive measures of its own) attaches the greatest importance to the earliest withdrawal of Indian troops. He pointed out that the Pakistan Prime Minister, in his recent five-point proposal to ensure peace between the two countries, had made it clear that the troops on both sides should be withdrawn simultaneously, but that no reply had yet been received from the Indian Prime Minister to Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan's invitation to visit Karachi to discuss these peace proposals. Accordingly, the Ambassador expressed the hope that the Secretary could use "his good offices" to the best advantage in reducing the extreme tension now prevailing between India and Pakistan, so as to avoid the imminent risk of a war which might result from almost any untoward incident on either side. I said that we had expressed our serious concern over the existing situation to both governments and indicated that I was familiar with the Pakistan Prime Minister's reply to our approach, which stated that he would favor simultaneous withdrawal of troops. I said that it had seemed hopeful that both Prime Ministers were in communication with DECLASSIFIED each E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or pa Dept. of State letter, 5-12-26 By NLT- HC NARS Date 6.25.76 DONFIDENTIAL