LARKANA: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto today [Oct 20] … said the Government would not succumb to … threats by the illegal strikers. Speaking at the inauguration of the Pakistan National Centre here, Prime Minister Bhutto said that Pakistan had no dearth of man power. He referred to the recent illegal strike by the Karachi Port Trust workers and said that the country was abundant in labour force. … If the strikers did not want to work any longer, they should resign … so that the Government could give [a] chance to others. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from New York,] the view that India’s May 18 explosion constituted a “quantum jump” in nuclear proliferation was … expressed by Ambassador [to UN] I.A. Akhund of Pakistan. Speaking to a group of American War College officers … he said unless adequate measures were taken, it was likely that the Indian example would be followed by 20 or more threshold powers. The Ambassador explained the essential elements of Pakistan’s proposal for a nuclear-free zone in South Asia which is on the agenda of the current session of the [UNGA].

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2024