KARACHI: Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, chief of the Bugti tribe, may launch a new political party in the near future, sources close to him said. … Since his return ... from a 10-month European holiday tour, Nawab Bugti has been holding discussions with a large number of people from Baluchistan, on the recent developments there. These persons have advised him to form a new party, the sources said. They include certain NAP leaders, Muslim League stalwarts, students, tribal sardars and likeminded persons from different parts of Baluchistan. Mr Bugti, who was to leave for his native village Dera Bugti … has postponed his departure for a day. — Staff reporter

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Houston,] orange soil around a crater called “Shorty” gave the Apollo astronauts their biggest find... . If laboratory tests confirm first impressions, it means “Shorty” is the first volcanically created crater, or Fumarole, yet found on the moon. … This would finally lay to rest the theory that the moon has been stone dead for the past 3,000 million years. And it also revived the controversy over whether the moon had water at some stage in its history.

Published in Dawn, December 14th, 2022