KARACHI: Karachi is in the grip of a heat wave. Maximum temperature on Monday [June 11] shot up to 103 — 10 degrees above the maximum on Sunday. It is expected to go up further today, meteorologists forecast. The heat wave extends over Sind and Baluchistan and is caused by a depression over the Arabian Seas which is attracting hot blasts from the desert. The heat further aggravated the water shortage in the city. Queueing under the blazing sun in the afternoon for water became well-nigh impossible.

[As reported by news agencies in London,] Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison admitted to a highly perturbed House of Commons today [June 11], that the two-week manhunt of Western Europe has not yet solved the mystery of two missing British Foreign Office officials. Mr Morrison made an extremely brief statement which shed no new light on disappearance of Mr Donald Maclean and Mr Guy Burgess.

… Mr Morrison … pleaded with the House not to “pre-judge anything one way or another” when asked whether there was any “shred of real evidence to connect the disappearance of these two men with Soviet Russia”.

Published in Dawn, June 12th, 2026