PESHAWAR: Khan Abdul Wali Khan, President of the National Awami Party, has resigned from his post and announced that he will leave for England to resume treatment of his eye, which was discontinued February last. In a Press statement . [he] stated that he had been elected Party’s President in June 1968 for two years and on completion of that period he was asked by the Central Committee to continue till the elections were held.
[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Istanbul,] More than 700 bodies have so far been recovered from the ruins of earthquake-shattered eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolian Agency said today [May 23], but added that the official number of dead was just over half this figure.
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