RAWALPINDI: A new Central Cabinet will be inducted after the forthcoming session of the National Assembly. This was disclosed here this morning [March 9] by Prime Minister Bhutto in his brief chat with the pressmen, who went to the airport to receive the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zaid bin Sultan Al-Nahiyan. The Prime Minister ... after receiving the distinguished guests, came to the Press enclosure... .

[News agencies add] …Sheikh Zaid … was accorded a warm welcome on his arrival … to begin a four-day State visit to Pakistan. He was received … by President Fazal Elahi Chaudhry and [PM] Bhutto as he stepped out of the chartered PIA plane that brought him from Abu Dhabi. The UAE President ... warmly shook hands with the Pakistani leaders as a 21-gun salute boomed out to herald his arrival. The sleek PIA Boeing, carrying the UAE Head of State and his twenty-member entourage … was escorted by four Pakistan Air Force Mirages, two on either side. Two little children, in colourful dresses, presented bouquets to President Nahiyan which he smilingly accepted.

Published in Dawn, March 10th, 2024