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The President, Gen A.M. Yahya Khan, talking to Dr Henry Kissinger, Assistant to the US President for National Security Affairs, when the latter called on him at the President’s House in Rawalpindi.
RAWALPINDI: President Nixon’s Assistant for National Security Affairs, Dr Henry Kissinger, who arrived here this afternoon [July 8] from New Delhi, had informal one and a half hours of talks with President Yahya Khan this evening and stayed on with President for dinner. They are scheduled to have a formal round of talks at 11am tomorrow.
On arrival at the airport this afternoon, Dr Kissinger was received among others by the President’s Economic Adviser, Mr M.M. Ahmed, the Foreign Secretary, Mr D.M. Khan, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the USA, Mr Agha Hilaly, and the American Ambassador, Mr Joseph Farlanti. According to speculations … the US official is exploring the possibility of placing a United Nations force on the India-East Pakistan border as a check against the possibility
March 15, 2021
How convenient it is for people to earn brownie points at the cost of others and with no cost to themselves. The Senate approved, with just one dissenting vote, the Compulsory Teaching of the Arabic Language Bill 2020 mandating the teaching of Arabic in primary and secondary schools in Islamabad. Within six months, the language will be taught in all schools in the city from grades 1 to 5 while its grammar will be taught through grades 6 to 12.
The proposer of the bill claimed that we would not go through the problems we are currently facing if we understood the Holy Quran. A minister concurred saying that the government categorically supported the bill and according to Article 31 of the constitution.
Parties and rifts
February 8, 2021
Controlling political parties, subjugating them and encouraging them to disintegrate in the name of the national interest as well as external pressure, political engineering, greed and use of various manoeuvres are the bitter realities of our political history that can neither be denied nor any sign seen for reformation of this tainted political culture.
It can be said without any doubt that democracy, democratic attitudes and especially political parties have a fundamental role to play in the formation of an organized and balanced society in modern times. It is on record that the real motivation behind the tireless struggle of the All India Muslim League and the successful politics of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in this regard was driven by peaceful political and democratic thinking which led to the creation of Pakistan in the middle of the 20th century. In any case, the real impetus behind the overall progress that modern societies have
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