WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 —Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said here today that India has no desire to provoke war against Pakistan and has no territorial designs either on Pakistan or on what she called “East Bengal.”

In a brief speech followed by an extensive question‐and-answer session at the National Press Club here, Mrs. Gandhi studiously avoided using the term East Pakistan.

She referred instead to “East Bengal” — as if to emphasize her Government's belief that this area with a copulation of more than 60 million would no longer voluntarily accept the authority of the military regime in West Pakistan headed by President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan.

Mrs. Gandhi said that she had been asked repeatedly in foreign capitals before coming to the United States on her current trip what solution India would like for East Pakistan.

She Makes a Plea

“It is not what we would like—but what the people of East Bengal will accept,” she said. “I should like to plead with the world not to reach a solution that would leave out the people of East Bengal. The solution must be reached through Sheik Mujibur Rahman [the imprisoned East Pakistani leader] and through their elected representatives.”

Alluding to President Yahya Khan and his military government, she said:

“The nations of the world should make up their own minds as to who is more important—one man and his machine or a whole nation.”

Mrs. Gandhi, who spoke in English quietly but with evident conviction, accused President Yahya Khan's troops of conducting a “reign of terror such as history has rarely witnessed” since they set out to crush the autonomy movement in East Pakistan last March.

Mrs. Gandhi, who conferred with President Nixon at the White House yesterday for two hours, met this morning for an hour at Blair House with Secretary of State William P. Rogers. Mr. Rogers then accompanied her to the White House, where she met again with Mr. Nixon and members of the Cabinet and other senior Government officials.

Later, Lakshmi Kant Jha, India's Ambassador to the United States, said that Mrs. Gandhi had gained the impression that President Nixon was “making a genuine effort to achieve a political rapprochement” in East Pakistan. Indian officials disclosed, however, that Mr. Nixon had warned that United States influence on Pakistan was limited.

Meanwhile, the State Department announced that a chartered United States ship would sail for India soon with 657,000 blankets for East Pakistani refugees in that country. The department said there would be further sea shipments of 470,000 blankets and an air shipment of 120,000 blankets. It added that the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was coordinating the gathering of 4,500,000 blaakets throughout the world for refugee camps in the colder northern of India.

Calls for World Pressure

Mrs. Gandhi said that the growing influx of refugees from East Pakistan into India was creating social, political and economic strains within her country. She called for international pressures on President Yahya Khan to negotiate peaceful solution.

“Before the refugees will return to their own country, they will inevitably ask—is it safe?” she said. “And if it's safe—as Yahya claims—why are they still poring across the border into India?”

In separate actions today, Senator Fred R. Harris, Democrat of Oklahoma, introduced a resolution urging that the United Nations call an emergency session on the Indian‐Pakistani issue.

Representative Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Republican of New Jersey, called on the Administration to halt all military aid to Pakistan.

Mrs. Gandhi is due to fly to New York tomorrow aboard special United States Air Force plane. Tomorrow she is scheduled to tape, a television interview for the N.B.C. program, “Meet the Press,” lunch at The New York Times as a guest of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the publisher, and then deliver an address at Columbia's School of International Affairs.

She is scheduled to leave the United States, on Sunday on a chartered Air Indian plane.