PAKISTAN WHOSE ALLY ? AS U.S . UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE GEORGE 
BALL FLEW IN TO RAWALPINDI LAST WEEK TO EXPRESS CHAGRIN OVER 
PAKISTAN'S BUDDING FRIENDSHIP WITH RED CHINA, HE GOT A QUICK AND 
BITTER TASTE OF THE NATION'S NEW MOOD . NO FEWER THAN 
FIVE CHINESE COMMUNIST DELEGATIONS INCLUDING POETS, PINGPONG PLAYERS AND TRADE OFFICIALS 
WERE GETTING THE WELCOME TREATMENT FROM PAKISTANI OFFICIALS . GLEEFULLY, THE 
PAKISTAN PRESS TRUMPETED THE WORDS OF ONE VISITING CHINESE BARD WHO 
WROTE : " YOU ARE ON THE WESTERN COAST OF THE 
SEA AND WE ARE ON THE EAST . THE TIDAL WAVES 
OF THE OCEAN ROAR, AND INTERMINGLED, WE CAN HEAR THE SOUND 
OF OUR HEARTBEAT . " AMID THIS HEADY STUFF, BALL PASSED 
THE WORD TO PAKISTAN'S PRESIDENT MOHAMMED AYUB KHAN THAT THE U.S 
. HOPED PAKISTAN WOULD NOT CARRY ITS PALSY-WALSY CAMPAIGN WITH RED 
CHINA TOO FAR . BUT ALL AYUB AND THE OTHER PAKISTANIS 
WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS THEIR PREOCCUPATION WITH INCREASED MILITARY AID 
TO INDIA, WHICH THEY CONSIDER A BETRAYAL BY THE U.S THREAT 
TO PAKISTAN'S SECURITY . BEHIND PAKISTAN'S NEW STANCE IS GROWING PRESSURE 
ON AYUB BY NEUTRALIST PAKISTANI POLITICIANS SUCH AS 35-YEAR-OLD FOREIGN MINISTER 
ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO . EMERGING FROM SESSIONS WITH AYUB AND BHUTTO, 
BALL DECLARED THAT " WE HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF EACH 
OTHER'S POINT OF VIEW . " IT WAS DIPLOMATESE FOR A 
STUBBORN DEADLOCK ALTHOUGH AYUB PRIVATELY HAD MADE IT CLEAR THAT HE 
WILL NOT SIGN ANY MILITARY PACTS WITH CHINA AND WANTS TO 
REMAIN AN ALLY OF THE WEST, HE PASSED ALONG WORD TO 
HIS AMERICAN GUEST THAT PAKISTAN IS NOT ABOUT TO BACK DOWN 
ON THE NEW AIR AGREEMENT IT HAD JUST SIGNED WITH CHINA 
. PAKISTAN UNDERSCORED ITS ATTITUDE TOWARD PEKING BY ANNOUNCING AN AGREEMENT 
TO SURVEY THE BORDER BETWEEN CHINA'S SINKIANG REGION AND THE PAKISTANI-CONTROLLED 
PORTION OF KASHMIR 