Pakistan joined western military alliances only to get gain over India.

Pakistan joined western military alliances only to get gain over India.

During 1958, Chinese diplomats complained about Pakistan Prime Minister Subrawardy’s anti communist policy. Subsequently China’s official organ, such as the People’s Daily and the Peking Review, criticized Pakistan policies, particularly the existence of American missile and naval bases in Pakistan under the cover of SEATO and CENTO. In 1959, China protested to Pakistan for having shown courtesies to a mission of Muslims from Taiwan which had arrived in Karachi en route to Mecca for the Haj. The Peking Review as a Pakistan writer says, used strong language to castigate Pakistan for receiving the Haj mission and for denouncing the Chinese action in Tibet. The Chinese Government also lodged a further protest in July 1959 with the Pakistan Embassy in Peking.

China did not like President Ayub Khan’s suggestion to India for the joint defence of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent and asked Pakistan to indicate against whom this joint defence was intended to be organized. Manzur Qadir, the Foreign Minister repeatedly expressed in April 1059 his misgivings and fear about communist expansionism and urged other Asian countries to join collective security arrangements.

Thus China too regarded Pakistan’s military alliances with western countries as directed its security. There was; however a difference in that the Pakistan Prime Minister took the initiative to explain to Premier Chou En-lai in Bandung in 1955 that Pakistan had not joined the military pacts or received the U.S. military aid with any aggressive designs against China. In an effort to pin him down, Premier Chou En-lai said in his speech to the political committee of the Afro-Asian conference in Bandung on 23 April 1955. He told “that although Pakistan was a party to a military treaty, Pakistan was not against China. The Prime Minister of Pakistan further assured that if the U.S. should take aggressive action under the military treaty or if the U.S. launched a global war, Pakistan would not be involved in it. I am grateful to him for this explanation, because though these explanations we achieve a mutual understanding.”

Eight years later, on 10 April 1963, in a statement to the Associated Press of Pakistan, Premier Chou En-lai said that the leaders of Pakistan had assured him in 1954 that Pakistan had joined the Western military alliances [CENTO and SEATO] only to gain political and military ascendancy over India and that “Pakistan had no other motivation in joining the pacts.” This revelation has not been denied by Pakistan authorities.

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