RAWALPINDI: President Nixon’s Special Assistant, Dr Henry Kissinger, who is expected to arrive here on July 8, after a visit to New Delhi, is likely to apprise President Yahya Khan of the US thinking on the situation now prevailing in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. As Special Assistant to President Nixon, Dr Kissinger occupies an important position in the US Administration, and it is expected here that the talks that he will hold with President Yahya Khan and others will be important in the context of Pakistan-US relations. They may be also prove helpful in reducing the present tension in the sub-continent.

... The attitude of the US Administration to the problems facing Pakistan has been comparatively helpful and full of understanding. It is hoped here that after the talks with President Yahya Khan and others, President Nixon and his administration will have a better appreciation of the situation facing this country. — Special representative

Bhutto leaves for Teheran

[Meanwhile, as reported by a staff correspondent in Karachi,]Mr Z.A. Bhutto, Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, flew out to Teheran yesterday [July 6] on a few days’ visit at the invitation of the Government of Iran. Accompanying him were Mr J.A. Rahim, the Party’s Secretary General; Mr Ghulam Mustafa Khar, President, Punjab People’s Party; Mr Mumtaz Bhutto, MNA-elect; and Mr Ghulam Mustafa Khan Jatoi, MNA-elect. ... Mr Bhutto will stay for a couple of days in Kabul. ... Mr Bhutto told newsmen ... he was prepared to pay brief visits to foreign countries ... to counter India’s malicious propaganda against Pakistan.

Tehrik-i-Istaqlal

[Agencies add from Karachi,] Air Marshal Asghar Khan (retired) Convener of the Tehrik-i-Istaqlal has said that the people of East Pakistan want to live together with their brethren in West Pakistan. Addressing his party workers in Malir in Karachi … he asked the political leaders of West Pakistan to forget their differences and go to East Pakistan and meet the people. The Tehrik Chief who returned here after a week-long visit to East Pakistan said there were certain secessionist elements in the outlawed Awami League. He said that during his meeting with Sheikh Mujib in Dacca in March he had asked him not to do anything which might separate the two Wings of the country.

Polio mortality

[Meanwhile, as reported by staff correspondent in Karachi] The Epidemic Diseases Hospital, which is the only hospital in the City for the treatment of the patients suffering from infectious diseases, is facing great difficulty in providing intensive care to the victims of poliomyelitis, as there is no respirator available in the hospital.

The copies for July 1946 and the first 10 days of Aug­ust 1946 are missing from our archives. The ‘Seventy-five years ago’ section will resume from Aug 11.

Published in Dawn, July 7th, 2021