There was no issue of the paper on March 24, 1975, due to the Pakistan Day holiday. The excerpt below is taken from the previous day’s edition.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s immediate programme for peaceful nuclear power development includes a proposal for setting up of a nuclear power training centre at Karachi at a cost of Rs 25 million to train nuclear scientists and operators and technicians for the nuclear power stations in the country whose number is proposed to be raised to 24 by the end of the 1990s — starting with one at Chashma … and a nuclear reprocessing plant … to be established with the help of France. ...

Giving out details … at a Press conference here today [March 22], the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Mr Munir Ahmad Khan, said many countries had shown interest in supplying the nuclear power plant for the Chashma project. … Recalling Prime Minister Bhutto’s .. assurance that Pakistan had no intention to produce nuclear weapons … Mr Munir pointed out that Pakistan has agreed to put its nuclear power development projects completely under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2026