KARACHI: Back in the capital after attending the United Nations General Assembly meeting at Lake Success, Chaudhri Zafrullah Khan, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, told Pressmen … after his arrival at the Civil Airport on Thursday [June 2] that the Security Council appeared to be “shy” over the Hyderabad case. …

Replying to a … question if in his opinion the United Nations, after its handling of the Hyderabad case, would succeed where the League of Nations had failed, Chaudhri Zafrullah Khan replied that some sort of an international agency had to be kept in existence to effect a peaceful settlement of disputes between the various nations. If the United Nations failed some other body would have to be set up, he added. — News agencies

[Meanwhile in Lahore,] Mr Yusuf Haroon, Premier of Sind … declared that since his Ministry took charge of the Province, there had been a marked overall improvement in Sind — the Hur menace had ceased to exist, lawlessness and crime were definitely on the decrease, the political situation had been stabilised as never before and the economic prospects were brighter than ever.

Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2024