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by the Indians could be met by the arguments described in the preceding
paragraph.
35. PAKISTAN.
In 1948 Pakistan bought tapering annuities from Britain at
a cost of £8m on the same basis as India. It was not possible to conclude
a subsequent agreement on the lines of the 1955 India arrangement and the
Pakistanis still pay the overseas pensions themselves, currently about
£280,000 per year, using funds received under the annuities. But the
magnitude of the Pakistan pensions bill does not compare with that of India's
and the view of the Minister of Overseas Development, shared by the High
Commission in Rawalpindi, is that Pakistan should be covered under any new
arrangements.
36. BURMA. There is no reason of principle why HMG should not take over
Burma's overseas pensions, which cost about £190,000 per year. But it might first be desirable to raise again the question of the unsatisfactory state of British relations with Burma in regard to expropriation issues.
37. SUDAN. The similarity between the Sudan Service and a colonial public service was so close that it would not be reasonable to exclude Sudan pensions, about £388,000 per year, from the take-over.
38. EGYPT. Egypt has an annual expatriate pensions bill of about £15,000. But political considerations apart HMG would presumably not wish to pick up this bill because the officers concerned worked for the Egyptian Government
as private individuals and were not recruited by the British Government.
39. RHODESIA. As Rhodesia only became a Colony in September 1923 and on 1 October 1923 was granted full internal self-government, the new pension arrangements effectively exclude all Rhodesian pensions. In any event there
could obviously be no negotiation with the Smith regime.
40. FORMER FEDERATIONS. It is recommended that pensions in respect of the former Federations of (i) Rhodesia and Nyasaland and (ii) the West Indies
should not be included in the take-over. The former are met out of the
Central African Pensions Fund, any future deficit in which is underwritten
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