PESHAWAR: The gigantic efforts made by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto over the last four and half years to speedily develop Tribal Areas have started bearing fruit and the tribal people expressed their gratitude ... by according [him a] warm … welcome everywhere he went during his just concluded tour of the Tribal Areas. Most of the places he toured had not been visited by any previous Head of Government and this … showed the keen interest of the [PM] in the well-being of the tribal people. In the welcome address at public meetings, the tribesmen paid rich tributes to the [PM] for the ... services rendered by him for the country and to the cause of the poor and Islam.

[Meanwhile, as reported from Dacca,] Deputy Chief Martial Law Administrator of Bangladesh, Air Commodore A.G. Mehmood has described the gift of Boeing 707 by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Bhutto as a step which “will help to build a fabric of ... cooperation between our two sovereign countries”, reports Pakistan Television. At the handing over ceremony of the … aircraft in PIA’s sparkling green and silver colours … [the Air Commodore] … said, “we … are always conscious of … such friendly … gestures”.

Published in Dawn, November 7th, 2026