Thank you for your letter of 15th October concerning Australian
representation at Pakistan.

We have been most careful to avoid the difficulties which you
suggest might arise, and you will recall that we were represented
at the celebrations at Pakistan when the new dominion was formed.

Our representative then intimated our desire for early exchange of
representatives, which was only delayed by lack of accommodation
and other difficulty. [1]

During the last week, an officer of the High Commissioner's Office
at New Delhi visited Pakistan and was offered certain
accommodation.

The next move will be to send a senior officer to Pakistan to
establish an office and to carry on political reporting. [2]

We have refrained from asking the Australian High Commissioner at
New Delhi to visit Karachi for the reason that we understood that
it would be inappropriate for the representative at India to
approach the Pakistan authorities.