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DEFE 6/25

Reports: 1-50. (Described at item level), 1954 Jan 6-May 26

This file contains Joint Planning Staff memoranda from 6 January 1954 to 25 May 1954.
FCO 8/678

British Eagle airways trooping flights through Kuwait, 1967

This file contains correspondence relating to: Minute on the restoration of trooping flights from Akrotiri to Bombay and the Far East, following the closure of the route due to the clash between India and Pakistan in September 1965. The flights had previously been re-routed from Akrotiri to Kuwait to Ceylon during winter, and from Akrotiri to Abadan to Ceylon during summer, but the direct route is now open to Eagle Airways

FO 371/179817

Political relations: Pakistan, 1965

This file relates to the Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF) and relations between Pakistan and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.
FO 371/156796

Armed forces of Sultan of Muscat and Oman, 1961

This file relates to The Sultan’s Armed Forces (SAF) in Muscat and Oman.
FO 371/132825

Armed forces of Muscat, 1958

This file contains correspondence relating to: Possibility of Pakistan army reservists being employed in a combatant role in the Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF) (1, 4-5) Offer of a post of battalion commander in the SAF to Wing Commander D C Charlier, who is due to retire soon from the RAF (2) Possibility of officers from Australia and New Zealand serving in the SAF (3, 7) Proposal that a platoon of British infantry should be sent to Oman to provide training instruction and demonstration (6, 8)

FO 371/114585

Situation among tribes and sheiks of Muscat and Oman; involvement of Arab League in affairs of Oman; Saudi Arabian threat and gun running; operations against Imam of Oman's headquarters at Nizwa, 1955

This file contains correspondence relating to: Text of the first communiqué issued by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur at the start of the Nizwa operation (185) Background information on Nizwa for the Pakistani Prime Minister, and notification that once resolved, the Sultan will be able to focus on Gwadur [Gwadar] negotiations (186) Reports that the Imam of Oman Ghalib Al Hina'i left Nizwa, which was occupied without resistance.