RAWALPINDI: Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, Attorney-General, was today [July 20] sworn in as Minister in the Presidential Cabinet. He has been assigned the portfolio of Foreign Affairs.

Pirzada succeeds Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who is at present on leave but on expiry of leave Mr Bhutto would relinquish his post in the Cabinet.

President Ayub Khan administered the oath of office to Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada.

Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada belongs to the family of great saint, Shah Burhanuddin. Born in June 1923, he was educated at Bombay where he took the degree of law in 1945.

He worked as Honorary Secretary to the Quaid-i-Azam from 1941 to 1945. He had been associated with the Muslim League and held several offices in the organisation.

Soon after taking the oath of office, Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada drove to the Foreign Office at Islamabad where he met senior officials.

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Cleveland (Ohio),] Governor James A. Rhodes ... declared a state of emergency in Cleveland last night after the second wave of racial violence swept the city.

The Governor’s action came as hundreds of Police and the State National Guards fought violent mobs in the city’s Negro slum district.

At least 60 arrests were made raising the total to 100 since rioting broke out on Monday night.

Police opened fire with shotguns and used tear gas as they battled with the rioters.

Police patrolling the tough area armed with shotguns were pelted with bricks and other missiles. A Molotov cocktail set fire to a store which had already been sacked at the start of the rioting on Monday.

Police fired tear gas into one building when a sniper was reported to be shooting from inside.

Other policeman opened fire at a street corner where a milling crowd had gathered. As one Negro fell to the pavement, others screamed: “They shot him. They shot him.”

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2016