LAHORE: The Council and the Convention Muslim League have unified under the nomenclature of Pakistan Muslim League, and have set up a 30-member Organising Committee, with Mr Hasan A. Sheikh as President, and Mr Qasim Malik as Secretary-General, to complete the process of unification and hold elections at all tiers.

… In a prepared statement, Mr Hasan A. Sheikh noted with pleasure that the Leagues, including the Qayyum League faction led by Pir Pagaro, had already unified at the Sind level. … The unified party would be governed by the constitution and the rules of the Pakistan Muslim League of 1947 and from time to time thereafter. In other words, the constitution of the Council Muslim League had been adopted. — Correspondent

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in New Delhi,] Foreign Minister Swaran Singh said here today [Oct 7] that India has no intention of making the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir an international boundary. Mr. Singh, who returned here this morning from the United Nations, was commenting on a reported statement by President Z. A. Bhutto that his Govern­ment would not agree to making the military “line of control in Kashmir an international boundary”.

Published in Dawn, October 8th, 2022