Addressing a Press conference here today, the Minister said that a greater number of people would be associated with such parties in the national interest.

Mr Bhutto said he was in favour of giving representation to the Baluchistan region in the Government.

Mr Bhutto said that Ministers had every right to join political parties. They are not second class citizens and as such no bar could be imposed on them, he said.

He agreed that there would be lesser cohesion if the cabinet was composed of Ministers belonging to different political parties.

Mr Bhutto said the formation of Government was the prerogative of the President. National Government was a combination and cohesion of all political parties. Such composition, he said, was only necessary in the event of war when all political parties sink their differences and combine to work in national emergency in the larger interest of the country.

He said that in normal times and even in times of emergency other than war, national government could not really succeed because each party had its own internal thoughts. —Agencies

Pakistani films for Beirut festival

KARACHI: A meeting of the Export Promotion Committee for Films held in Karachi yesterday decided to send a 4-man delegation to participate in the international film festival to be held in Beirut on Oct 18 to 26.

The meeting also decided to send four films — two documentary and two feature films — in the festival. The films are: (1) Tanha, (2) Shaheed, (3) East Pakistan, and (4) Anarkali.

It was recommended by the meeting that a centralised agency for the export of Pakistan’s films should be created. The meeting, which was held in the room of the Supply Department, was attended by the representatives of film producers, distributors and exhibiters associations, Central Ministries of Commerce, Industry and Information.—Agencies