ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly today [June 2] passed a Bill which ... provides for extension of the suo moto revisional powers of the Federal Government in land reforms cases upto September 30 next. The Land Reforms (amendment) Bill … will replace the recently-promulgated Land Reforms (amendment) Ordinance amending the Land Reforms Regulation 1972. Besides the extension of ... suo moto powers, other effects of the Bill will be: — Exemption of a livestock farm or a cooperative society from the operation of the land reforms regulation.

[Meanwhile, a letter to editor reads,] You deserve compliments for the excellent editorial on the late Zainul Abedin. He was truly a great artist who was above national or parochial passion. To him, art was the depiction of the realities of life — rural scenes from his native Bengal, crowded metropolis of Calcutta, housing in colourful Dacca, peculiar dwellings in Mexico or gypsies of Spain. … If you would sit with him for hours, it would be the most pleasant company of an immaculately, yet simply dressed man, smiling and exuberating love of life. … May I suggest that both Pakistan and Bangladesh … collect his notable paintings and found a picture gallery in his name in either country?

Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2026