RAWALPINDI: Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, President of the Azad Kashmir Government asked today [Oct 23] all the Kashmir Muslims to renew their pledge on the occasion of the second anniversary of their independence that whatever the circumstances they would continue fighting for freedom till they free every inch of their father-land and liberate every single Kashmiri from the oppressive alien Indian rule. He expressed his satisfaction … that in spite of the adverse Indian propaganda the world had come to know that right was on the side of the fighters for liberation. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Cairo,] King Abdullah of Transjordan, has decided to call a conference of … Syria, the Lebanon, Jordan and Arab Palestine to consider matters regarding their common interest… . It is believed that the … monarch will place before the conference his proposal for unification of all the four States. The Jordan Minister, in Pakistan, Shouraiky Pasha, who is on leave in his country, is reported to be playing an important part in this connection. This week he visited Damascus and delivered personal letters from King Abdullah to Hashem Attasi, Syrian Prime Minister.

Published in Dawn, October 24th, 2024