There was no issue of the paper on Nov 10, 1976, owing to the Iqbal Day holiday. The excerpt below is taken from the previous day’s edition.

LAHORE: Rana Muhammad Hanif Khan, Federal Minister for Finance, said here today [Nov 8] that development process was continuing … and the Government hoped that all annual development targets would be fully met at the end of the year. He was talking to [a news agency]… . The Minister said the Finance Ministry was providing all the … resources as were allocated in the Budget while the executing agencies were implementing the plans. … …Rana Hanif said the Government would … encourage investment by foreign investors… .

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from London,] a report of a … nuclear accident in the Soviet Union from an explosion of atomic waste materials was described by a British scientist … as ‘highly unlikely’. Sir John Hill, Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority … was commenting on a report by a dissident Soviet scientist, Dr Zhores Medvadev, that a nuclear explosion, involving stored atomic waste, ‘killed hundreds’ of persons and caused ‘tens of thousands’ of cases of radiation sickness in 1958.

Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2026