From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: 'No yielding to pressure'.

KARACHI -- President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto declaAred here yesterday [June 24] that he would not 'sign the death warrant of Pakistan' during his summit talks with Mrs Indira Gandhi. Speaking extempore in Urdu at the ... Pakistan Naval AcaAdAAAemy ... the President said that he was going to India to safeguard the territorial integrity of the country. ... The President emphatically declared that he would not yield to any pressures during the talks as 'I am not the man to barter away the interest of Pakistan'. He said he would prefer death to a life under domination. - News agencies

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in New Delhi,] Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said ... she expects no 'far-reaching or immediate...

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