KOHAT: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, yesterday [Nov 9] said that a Judicial Commission will be appointed shortly to go into the question of a fair distribution of the Indus water among provinces. Mr Bhutto said that the Government is trying to set up irrigation facilities for agriculture. He was hopeful that with completion of the Chashma Right Bank Canal the NWFP will be able to meet its irrigation requirements. It will also help boost sugar cane, wheat and tobacco production, he remarked. The Prime Minister made these remarks while talking to … lawyers and notables at Mardan on the second day of his five-day visit to the NWFP… .

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from the United Nations,] the UN General Assembly on Tuesday [Nov 9] voted by 110 to eight with 20 abstentions, to ask members to impose a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa and ban all military co-operation with Pretoria. … Pakistan voted with the African and the Third World countries in favour of all resolutions on which a vote was taken. The Assembly proclaimed any collaboration with the racist regime of South Africa as being a hostile act against the oppressed people of South Africa… .

Published in Dawn, November 11th, 2026