There was no issue of the paper on Oct 20, 1951, out of respect for the late prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan. The excerpt below is from the previous day’s edition.

NEW DELHI: Bharati Prime Minister Pandit Nehru said here on Wednesday [Oct 17] that Mr Liaquat Ali Khan’s death should hush up controversies that existed between Bharat and Pakistan and “enable us to view the picture in truer perspective and, keeping our honour and self-respect and our interests always in view, still enable us to go towards settlement”. Pandit Nehru, who was addressing the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress … said: “Our relations with Pakistan have been bad, although we have tried our best to improve them and to come to a peaceful settlement… . Let us not forget that, although many matters remain unsolved, we have, from time to time, come to settlements with Pakistan about particular matters. …

“For a moment controversies, which we have with Pakistan, are forgotten and we think only of the old colleague, coming from this very part of the country, with whom we have co-operated in many ways …”

Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2026