LAHORE: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Chaudhri Mohammad Ali, has pleaded for a two-year moratorium on constitutional debate and on partisan politics in contradistinction to the politics of national unity and harmony. In a Press Statement, he said party politics serve to divide and not to unite — and unity is today the supreme need of the hour. It is in the very nature of party politics to stir up controversies, to set one interest against another, and at least in our country as shown by the behaviour of some parties in the elections, to have scant regard for truth and decency.

Supporting his viewpoint, Chaudhri Mohammad Ali said, “constitutional questions have everywhere aroused strong passions which are difficult to adjust harmoniously and the history of Pakistan can serve as an object lesson if this truth”. — Agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Geneva,] The [WHO] announced that three million doses of cholera vaccine would be flown into India over the next three weeks... . A spokesman for the [WHO] told a Press conference the cholera situation seemed to be stabilising but extra supplies of vaccine were needed to protect the Indian population as displaced persons were moved further inside the country... .

Published in Dawn, June 14th, 2021

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