RAWALPINDI: Leaders of the NAP and JUI met President Bhutto at the Presidency here tonight [Aug 19]. NAP leaders included the party chief, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, the Baluchistan Governor, Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, Sardar Ataullah Mengal, Baluchistan Chief Minister, and Arbab Sikandar Khan Khalil, Frontier Governor, and Mufti Mahmud, Frontier Chief Minister. … The subject matter of the meeting, however, could not be known. ...

Asked about the agenda of the meeting, Mufti Mahmud said “we don’t know but probably the relations between the NAP and People’s Party will come up and an effort would be made to evolve a compromise formula wherein the ruling parties of the two Provinces could achieve understanding and harmony”. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Munich,] Negro athletes staged a walkout at an international athletics meeting at Kempten … in protest at Rhodesia’s presence in the forthcoming Munich Olympics. Competitors from Jamaica, Trinidad, Tanzania and Barbados were among those who were understood to have attended the meeting but refused to take part.

Published in Dawn, August 20th, 2022