KARACHI: Four countries have responded to UNESCO’s appeal and have committed donations to the Rs 130 million project for the preservation of the ancient city of Moen-jo-Daro. West Germany has offered one million Deutsche marks … Cameroon has donated 1,000 dollars, Cyprus 270 US dollars, and Iraq 6,781 US dollars. It was learnt that the West German Government may make additional contribution later. West Germany has also shown interest in holding “Moen-jo-Daro Week” to raise funds for preservation of the site. — Correspondent

[Meanwhile, as reported from London,] “The Times”, London, in a despatch by its New Delhi correspondent … captioned “Rebellion Waning in Baluchistan”, said that the animosity in the region may have been aroused by Prime Minister Bhutto’s social reforms. The despatch … said that the unrest … was a response by feudal tribal chiefs to the Government’s attempts to develop schools, roads, hospitals and the apparatus of a modern administration in what is undoubtedly still a backward and obscurantist society. … “Baluchistan’s … barren and rugged terrain [is] still peopled largely by tribes amenable only to the idiosyncratic jurisdiction of their own Sardars.”

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2025