There was no issue of the paper on Aug 16, 1973, on account of the Independence Day holiday. The excerpt below is taken from the previous day’s edition.

KARACHI: The number of Pakistanis going abroad has increased three-fold following the Government’s relaxation of curbs on foreign travel. Private travellers and those who are seeking employment abroad are the main categories of people heading the list for securing State Bank’s P Form.

Others to follow are businessmen, emigrants, students, people who go for professional training, medical treatment and airline personnel. Before the present Government took over there were considerable restrictions on foreign travel and those who were able to go were required to buy tickets on bonus and foreign exchange on cash-cum-bonus. All these conditions have been relaxed and the number of people leaving the country is around 1,000 per day from Karachi airport, through Quetta and Khyber Pass. …[L]arge number of people are going for performing Umra, ziarat, to visit relations and for holidays. There is … no restriction on such visits and less formalities to be observed. — Correspondent

Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2023