OKARA: The adoption at the United Nations by an overwhelming majority of Pakistan’s resolution on nuclear explosions was a big victory for the nation. This was stated by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto while addressing a big public meeting in Okara this morning [Nov 29]. Amidst thunderous applause, he felicitated the people on this achievement. He said Pakistan’s foreign policy was a big success, and the country’s prestige abroad was rising high. He said he had promised … after India conducted nuclear explosion in May last that his government would raise the issue at the United Nations. [Meanwhile, as reported from Peshawar], President Fazle Elahi Chaudhry has said that tuberculosis was a major public health problem, not only in Pakistan but also in all developing countries, and stressed the need for drawing up of an effective … programme to control the disease. Inaugurating [a seminar here, he] … said that despite limited national resources, the present revolutionary Government … had introduced far-reaching reforms, based on people’s welfare, to improve the lot of the common man.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2024