President Ayub Khan of Pakistan indicated skepticism here today as to whether his country could act effectively as mediator in the Arab-Israeli disputes. In reply to a question following an address to the National Press Club, where he was asked whether his State, as a Moslem nation outside the Arab League, could not take the initiative in seeking an Arab-Israeli settlement, he said:
“Have you tried that?” A number of nations, he said, have sought such a goal “and got their fingers burned.” Stressing that the problem was serious, affecting the security of all nations, and that there must be a desire for peace on both sides as a prerequisite, he added that there was no use “trying to act as a busybody” because efforts might be “only misunderstood.” Anyway, he said, “we have a large number of our own problems.”
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