KARACHI: The Government of Pakistan have agreed to the appointment of M Bakulin Ivan Nikolaevich as Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Pakistan, says … the Ministry of Foreign Affairs … on Monday … [Nov 21]. M Bakulin Ivan Nikolaevich was born in 1906. He graduated from Leningrade Engine­ering Economic Institution and was a post-gra­duate scholar of this Institution. Since 1939 he has been working under the Ministry of Forei­­gn Affairs of the USSR. In 1940-42 he was Con­sul-General in Urumchi (China). From 1942 to 1949 he was chief of Department in the Mini­s­try of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. From 1949-47 he was the Soviet Ambassador in Afghan­is­t­­an. On relinquishing that charge, he was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USSR. [Meanwhile as reported by news agencies in Cairo,] Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, President of the Azad Kashmir Government, told reporters here today [Nov 20] that Mr Nehru had “thwarted all attempts” by the United Nations Commission to mediate in the Kashmir dispute. He asserted that Mr Nehru “spurned the suggestion of President Truman and Mr Attlee for arbitration by bringing in irrelevant issues”.