GENEVA: Zimbabwean African National Union (ZANU) leader Mr. Robert Mugabe today [Oct 24] rejected the Kissinger plan for Rhodesia when he arrived here to attend next week’s Geneva conference on the former British colony now under white minority rule.

Mr Mugabe said that while the talks were going on “The Armed struggle shall continue and in fact gain in momentum” until power had been totally transferred from Zimbabwe’s … 270,000 whites to its six million black majority. Mr Mugabe said the theme of the conference must be the transfer of power to Zimbabwe’s blacks and the establishment of legal independence in the country. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Hyderabad,] brothers Mushtaq and Sadiq wrote Pakistan cricket history by hitting centuries in the same innings and new ball bowlers Sarfaraz and Imran followed the good work to repeat the Lahore performance in the Second Cricket Test against New Zealand at Niaz Stadium here today [Oct 24]. … Pakistan batsmen did a wonderful job for their side by piling up a huge score. Mushtaq playing a captain’s knock was unfortunately run out for 101 runs while his younger brother … Sadiq … remained unbeaten with 103… .

Published in Dawn, October 25th, 2026