The Soviet note of April 1958 complained of Pakistan
When Pakistan accepted the U.S.military aid, Western policies were directed principally against communist countries. The view that Pakistan’s membership of Western military alliances and acceptance of the U.S.military aid were directed against communist powers is reinforced by the manner in which Pakistan supported Western polices in the United Nations and outside.
In the U.N. General Assembly and the Assembly’s first [Political] and special Political Committees, out of a total of 256 occasions when division was caused between 1952 and 1962, Pakistan voted with Western powers 165 times. A writer devoted to Pakistan’s cause, states that Pakistan had warmth of friendliness for Britain.” This leaning towards the West –going back to Jinnah’s time – was indeed reemphasized in 1950 when Liaquat Alikhan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan went to the extent of evading an invitation to visit Moscow. This policy continued during Khawja Nazimiddin’s Prime Ministership. Between 1954 and 1960, Pakistan followed a policy of “unqualified agreement” with the United States.
Which is borne by Pakistan’s voting record in the United Nations.
The Soviet Union and China reacted in these developments in varying degrees. In November 1953, Moscow sent a note of protest to Karachi, asking for clarification of Pakistan-America
Negotiations about military collaboration and American air bases in Pakistan. Another Soviet note to Karachi in March 1954 described the military aid agreement between Pakistan and the U.S. as an unfriendly act. When Pakistan and Turkey signed a military aid Agreement, the nucleus for the Baghdad Pact, the Soviet Union lodged another protest. “We do not like the Baghdad Pact at all,” said Khrushchev in Srinagar on 9 December 1955, “the most active participant of which is Pakistan.”
The Soviet note of April 1958 complained of Pakistan being a member of military-political alliance such as CENTO and SEATO, hostile to U.S.S.R.
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