RAWALPINDI: The Government will continue to extend its fullest co-operation to the Judiciary in the discharge of its duties, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said here tonight [Nov 24]. He was speaking as chief guest at a dinner hosted by the Attorney-General, Mr. Yahya Bakhtiar, to welcome the Supreme Court to its new seat in Rawalpindi. The Pri­me Minister said the Government was determined to maintain the high tradition of co-operation with the Supreme Court, which was the ultimate authority to dispense justice to individuals and to determine the relationship between the Centre and Provinces in the Fed­eration. … Mr Bhutto said the Government had full faith in the country’s Judiciary and the laws enacted by the Legislature.

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Vladivostok], President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger today [Nov 24] scored a “breakthrough” in strategic arms limitation talks with the Russians and got a US-Russian agreement on guidelines for a 10-year “cap on the arms race”. A joint statement released by Mr Ford and Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev … announced [the] … agreement on key terms of a new pact limiting strategic arms.

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2024