There was no issue of the paper on this date on account of the Pakistan Day holiday. The excerpt below is taken from the previous day’s edition.

ISLAMABAD: Cambodian Foreign Minister Sarin Chhak called on Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Rawalpindi this evening [March 22] and delivered a personal message from Head of State and President of the National Front of Cambodia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Mr Chhak arrived … on a three-day goodwill visit of Pakistan. … The Cambodian Foreign Minister remained with the Prime Minister for some time. … On arrival here, he said … that his Government and people were “deeply grateful” to the Government and people of Pakistan for their “valuable support to our just struggle for national liberation”.

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Washington,] the Ambassador of the Lol Non administration to the [US] said … his administration would not oppose a return to power by … Prince Norodom Sihanouk “if this would bring peace to the country”. … Asked if the administration was likely to surrender if it failed to receive any further US aid, he replied: “May be … Yes, it is almost certain.”

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2025