Political relations: Pakistan

This file relates to relations between the UK, Pakistan and Muscat and Oman over Gwadur [Gwadar]. It contains correspondence relating to:

• Discussion on the current situation regarding the 1958 Gwadar Agreement, including these four issues: the position of Major Sakhi Raja and four doctors and dentists, the interruption of recruiting, the return of all seconded Pakistani officers and the military clauses of the agreement. It also includes discussion of a Pakistani aide memoire on the revision of the treaty; the need for HMG to make representations to Pakistan in respect to their obligations under the agreement; the preparations for agreement on a BBC relay station (1)
• The Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur’s request for information on what the position was for HMG’s approach to the President of Pakistan Ayub Khan. It also includes mention of the inopportune timing of this situation regarding Ruler of Saudi Arabia King Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud’s recent visit to Pakistan (3)
• Agreement that the High Commissioner in Karachi should not speak to President Khan about the Gwadar Agreement before June 1966 (4)
• The wait for the Sultan’s reply to a Foreign Office telegram; details of some Pakistani officers released from their secondments (6)
• Instructions from the Foreign Office on the Gwadar Agreement (7)
• Details of a strike by Indian and Pakistani artisans employed by George Wimpey Limited and their demands; a discussion of a note by Donald Pragnell on another strike by these workers (8, 16)
• Report by the Assistant Military Secretary Colonel L Sanderson that the recruitment of Pakistani contract personnel is going well (9)
• Effect on Anglo-Pakistani relations of the recruitment of Pakistanis for Muscat. It also includes the offer from India of personnel to second to Muscat (10)
• Letter from Sanderson indicating that the Sultan has stated he does not want Major Raja to return to the Dhofar Force (11)
• T F Brenchley’s meeting with C Pickard and the inquiry whether there is any problem to be discussed on recruitment for Muscat, the only point being the Pakistani demand for the return of their seconded personnel, which seems to be solving itself (13)