There was no issue of the paper on Nov 29, 1966 due to the Shab-i-Barat holiday. The following news items and image are from the Nov 28 issue.

HYDERABAD: Mr Mohammad Musa, Governor, West Pakistan, said today [Nov 27] that water logging and salinity was a national problem being dealt with on a national level.

He said the Government was aware of the alarming rate at which this twin menace was threatening fertile lands and everything possible was being done to tackle the problem.

He was meeting the basic democrats and citizens at Sanghar Rest House this morning on the second day of his meet-the-people tour.

The Governor asked the agriculturists to help raise the country’s food production.

He said the Government was already making sincere efforts to procure food grains from abroad. He said we cannot afford to spend huge sums of money and foreign exchange on the import of food grains, otherwise all our development achieved during the last few years would be neutralised.He asked the agriculturists to bring more land under food grains’ cultivation and not to restrict themselves to sugarcane and banana cultivation only.

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Lahore,] most of the one crore 32 lakh Muslims in Uttar Pradesh will go against the Congress in the next general elections, according to a report in the “Times of India” from its Lucknow correspondent.

This was stated to the Times of India reporter in an interview by Dr. A.J. Faridi, leader of the “Majlis-e-Mushawart” which represents a large section of Muslims in the state.

Dr. Faridi said that the Muslims of Uttar Pradesh had lost faith in the Congress because it had gone back on all its promises to them before the last general elections. He said there was no question of the Majlis supporting Jan Sangh candidates.

Published in Dawn November 29th, 2016