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India's Nehru had agreed to join Pakistan's President Ayub Khan in seeking an early solution to the Kashmir problem. But now India already was beginning to stall, refused to commit itself on either the date or place of any conference...
...cease-fire line; Red China was trying to play Pakistan off against India by offering the Pakistanis a non-aggression pact. No longer counseled by ousted Defense Minister Krishna Menon, who obsessively regards Pakistan as India's main enemy, Nehru finally agreed to write Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, suggesting top-level talks on Kashmir. Ayub promptly assented. This, of course, was no assurance that the two foes would ever come to an accord in the bitter dispute at the conference table; but at least they would now be negotiating-and in the process perhaps hurling fewer curses...
...dispute with India over control of Kashmir. Bitterly. Pakistan pointed to the crack Indian divisions still positioned along the U.N. cease-fire line as proof that India was exaggerating the extent of the Chinese incursions. Echoing influential Pakistani officials who labeled India the "aggressor" in the border conflict. President Ayub Khan said that "international Communism" was far less of a danger to Pakistan than "Hindu imperialism," and that India was "inflating the present situation beyond proportion to get arms" from the U.S. and Britain...
...accept Indian rearmament and not to take advantage of India's plight to invade Kashmir, then Nehru should have been required in turn to promise to settle the Kashmir issue. Although the U.S. got an Indian promise that the new arms would not be used against Pakistan, Ayub's government refused to be reassured. Ayub warned Washington that its continued support of Nehru might force him to withdraw from both SEATO and CENTO, if they should prove "of no use" to Pakistan any longer...
...Ayub was strongly seconded by his Foreign Minister, Mohammed Ali. Speaking "in anguish, not anger," Ali told the National Assembly that "in the national interest we shall make friends-whoever is interested to accept our hand. If friends let us down, we shall not consider them as friends. Friends that stand by us, we will stand by." He did not have to look far for new friends. From Peking came an offer from Chou En-lai for a nonaggression pact between Red China and Pakistan, as well as an invitation to Ali to visit the Chinese capital to discuss arbitration...