Washington, Nov 7
The United States plans to announce tomorrow the cancellation of licences for the export of more than $3m of military material to Pakistan.

This will, in effect, end the controversial arms pipeline that has supplied Pakistan with spare parts and other military goods even though the Administration imposed an arms freeze early in April.

State Department officials, in disclosing the move, emphasized that the revocation of the licences was done with the consent of the Pakistan Government, which had been aware of the strong congressional opposition to the continued shipment of goods to Pakistan for possible use in crushing the rebellion in East Pakistan.

The officials said that Mrs Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, was informed of the licence revocation just before she arrived in Washington last Wednesday for talks with President Nixon.

It was stated in diplomatic circles that the revocation removed a major irritant in Indian-American relations.

Even though the amount of military equipment being sold to Pakistan in recent months was regularly described by the Administration as “insignificant” and of little military importance, it was viewed by many Indians as indicative of a “pro-Pakistan” prejudice by the Nixon administration.

Many American, senators also complained that the flow of spare parts and other equipment was helping the Pakistan Government in crushing the East Pakistan independence movement and contributing to the flow of nearly 10 million Pakistanis who have fled to India.—New York Times News Service.
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