Message of felicitations to Mr. Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan on December 11, 1972

I send you my warmest felicitations and good wishes on behalf of the Government and people of Pakistan and on my own behalf on your leading the Liberal democratic Party to victory in the just concluded general elections in Japan. I sincerely hope that your new term of office as Prime Minister of Japan with a renewed mandate from your people, will give greater momentum to policies of peace and reconciliation in Asia which you have initiated with statesmanlike foresight and pursed with unswerving courage and determination.

Relations between Japan and Pakistan have always been friendly and cordial, I feel confident that our two countries will further expand the scope of their mutual cooperation during your new term of office.