KARACHI: Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, the Sind Premier, accompanied by Hon’ble Pir Ilahi Bukhsh and Mr. Yusuf Haroon left for Hyderabad in connection with the forthcoming bye-election. Sheikh Abdul Majid is likeliest to be taken as a Minister in place of M.H. Gazdar but he refuses to take the League pledge. Some compromise is expected to be arrived at. Sir Ghulam Hussain, when approached by the Orient Press representative indignantly contradicted the report circulated by “interested quarters” that he was planning revolt against the League. “It is a mischievous lie and events of the past few weeks should expose this lie if proof were needed.”

[Meanwhile, as reported from Peshawar,] The second session of the N.W.F.P. Women Muslim League was held yesterday [Jan 8] at the Frontier Premier’s bungalow under the presidentship of Fatima Begum, Principal, Jinnah Girls College, Lahore. In her address, she made a survey of the political problems facing India, and expressed the firm belief that ‘Pakistan’ would solve them all. She criticised Mr. Gandhi’s attitude towards the ban imposed on ‘Satyarath Parkash’ by the Sind Government. Resolutions were passed urging the need for popularising Urdu [and] stressing the need for opening a women’s degree college in the Frontier Province…

Published in Dawn, January 11th, 2020