MARDAN: The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, today [Dec 11] asked the people … to beware of disruptionists who were the tools of enemy agents. The Prime Minister who was addressing a big public meeting … said that those who tried to create disunity among Muslims were not only the enemies of Pakistan but also of Islam. No matter how strong [] the defences of the country, if its people were torn by internal strife ... it would neither make progress nor defend itself against the foreign aggression.

Stating that their enemies who had failed ... to destroy Pakistan were now trying to achieve their goal by sowing seeds of disunity among Muslims, he [asked] the people … to close ... ranks and stand like [an] iron wall to defy all efforts to break up their unity. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Lahore,] Khwaja Nazimuddin, the Governor-General of Pakistan … said that the trade deadlock with India had necessitated the diversion of Pakistan’s exportable surpluses to new markets. This could only be possible … if the trade community … [make] Pakistani goods bear the hall-mark of quality and conform to specifications.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2024