ROME: Politics — the favourite issue was Viet-Nam — brought demonstrations into the streets of at least 10 major cities across the world yesterday [April 27] leaving a trail of inquiries and arrests.

In Rome more than 50 students were injured — some seriously — and 200 arrested when riot Police charged a demonstration against Police brutality and bourgeois Government, and in New York pro-war demonstrations fought with people attending an anti-Viet-Nam war rally.

More demonstrations took place in Philadelphia, Sydney, Ottawa and Tokyo.

In Prague, Czechoslovak and North Viet-Namese demonstrators scuffled outside the United States Embassy when the Viet-Namese tore down the US emblem and flag.

[Meanwhile, as reported by an agency in Karachi,] Syed Ahmad Saeed Kirmani, President of the West Pakistan Muslim League, yesterday [April 27] said that PDM leaders were opposed to the very creation of Pakistan and were the lackey stooges of Hindus and British imperialism.

Addressing the largely attended public meeting in Karachi at Lyari, he said that these leaders have waged a false propaganda against President Ayub’s government to meet their selfish motives.

Published in Dawn, April 29th, 2018