LAHORE: Mr Z.A. Bhutto, Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, today [July 20] declared that his party was willing to wait for four months a period stipulated in President Yahya’s broadcast for transfer of power but would never accept any further procrastination in this respect…. Talking informally to newsmen, Mr Bhutto said when he demanded immediate transfer of power to the elected representatives, he did not use the term immediate in its literal sense he meant that his party wanted only to prevent procrastination. Staff correspondent
[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Rawalpindi,] President Yahya Khan has received a letter from the World Bank President, Mr Robert McNamara, regretting the unauthorised publication in the American Press of a report on the East Pakistan situation…. Prepared by a World Bank team, after a visit to Pakistan in June, for the … 11-nation Aid-to-Pakistan Consortium, the World Bank chief reportedly found it biased and provocative and
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Government has asked for convening of a special session of the World Bank’s Aid-to-Pakistan Consortium to discuss the immediate difficulties relating to servicing of foreign loans and the question of pressure on Pakistan’s balance of payment, official sources told APP today [May 1]. The June session will discuss Pakistan’s proposal to provide for a six-month moratorium on re-payment of foreign debts on the part of Pakistan. Discussions for convening a special session of the consortium in June are taking place between Economic Co-ordination and External Assistance Division and envoys of the Consortium countries.
If the June session takes place for which officials said the response is “very good” it is expected to be followed by the normal annual session in July, 1971 for consideration of Pakistan’s aid needs for the development programme for 1970-1971. Pakistan Government, official sources said, has asked the envoys of the Consortium countries th