Thirteen Indian firms, including one under Government sponsorship, were disclosed today to have been blacklisted by the Arab League because foreign associates of the firms have connections with Israel.
Efforts to have the firms removed from the Arab blacklist on grounds that the companies did not deal directly with Israel have failed, the Arab League apparently insisting that the firms drop their connections with those associates. Political sources said that the Government had taken up the issue with the Arab League and that, if efforts to end the blacklisting continued to fail, serious diplomatic consequences might arise.
The daily newspaper Pratap, meanwhile, sharply criticized the Arab League this weekend for advocating a policy of neutrality in India’s dispute with Pakistan, in an effort to induce this country to continue withholding diplomatic recognition of Israel. The paper declared in an editorial that the Arab states profess friendship towards India to make this country a tool for gaining their own political objectives.
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