Morning News ::. May 15

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15 MAY 1971

News headlines and details from the Daily Morning News.

News Headlines:

Yahya may visit E. Wing next month.
Over 4M. dollar UNICEF fund for Pakistan.
MLR No. 79.
New baggage rules from today.

Other Headlines:

Governor advises mills to start second shifts immediately.
13,800 mds. of sugar arrive in city.
Pakistan warns India in sharp exchanges at UN.
Patriotic villagers eliminate miscreants.
London industrialists confident of jute situation in East Wing.
India adopts a policy to publicise concocted stories about E. Wing.
NAP (B) leader quits party.
RCD Cultural Institute Body's meeting today.

Yahya may visit E. Wing next month

Mr. Nurul Amin, chief of the Pakistan Democratic Party, said here that he had requested the president, General Yahya Khan, to pay a visit to East Pakistan as early as possible with a view to having a first-hand knowledge of the situation prevailing in the province.

On his return from Rawalpindi on Thursday Mr. Nurul Amin told APP that he was assured by the president that he (president) would be trying to come to East Pakistan in the early part of next month.

The PDP chief who went to Rawalpindi on Tuesday at the invitation of the president said that during the meeting he (Mr. Amin) had emphasised the need for making up the economic backwardness of East Pakistan. He said he had stressed that sufficient money should be placed in East Pakistan in this connection.

The PDP chief said that he had enlightened the president on the food and economic problem in the province. He said he was told by the president that the Government had sufficient food stock to meet the situation in the province.

Regarding the communication problem Mr. Amin said the president had told him that they should be able to overcome the problem.

Their discussion included the condition now prevailing in the province, economic situation and impediments in the communication system.

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Over 4m. dollar UNICEF fund for Pakistan

(PPI)

Karachi, May 14 (PPI): Funds totalling Rs. 2,76 crore have been made available to Pakistan by the United Nations Children's Fund for projects to be incorporated in the budget for the financial year beginning next month.

According to a communication received by the local UN office here the funds total over four million dollars in foreign exchange were approved by the UNICEF's Executive Board in Geneva last month.

This will be for schemes in Health, Family Planning, Social Welfare Education and emergency programmes, the communication said.

The Pakistan government with the UNICEF and who assistance continues to expand the network of rural health centres all over the country.

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M.L.R. No 79

Rawalpindi, May 14: The following commanders of the Pakistan Army have been appointed as Deputy Administrators of Martial Law according to MLR No. 78 issued by the Chief Martial Law Administrator here to say:

A) Zone B. Lt. General A.A. K.Niazi.

B) Zone D. Maj. General B.M. Mustafa Khan.

C) Zone E. Maj. General Ghoudhri Nasir Ahmad.

D) Zone F. Maj. General Khadim Hussain Raja.

This amends the Martial Law Regulation No. 74 issued on March 1, 1971.

Following is the text of the Martial Law Regulation No. 79.

Martial Law Regulation No. 74 issued by the Chief Martial Law Administrator shall be amended as follows:

1) In Paragraph (A) for the expression Zone -B. Maj. General Khadim Hussain Raja. The expression Zone B— Lt-General A. A.K. Niazi, HJ. SK. MC shall be substituted and shall be deemed to have been so substituted with effect from the date on which Lt. General A.A.K. Niazi, HJ. S.K. MC assumed the office.

(2) Paragraph (B) shall be omitted.

(3) In Paragraph (C) for the expression Zone D— Maj General M. Rahim Khan SQA" the expression "Zone" D —Major General B.M. Mustafa Khan SQA shall be substituted and shall be deemed to have been so substituted with effect from the date on which Major General B.M. Mustafa Khan, SQA assumed the offce.

(4) In Paragraph (D) for the expression Zone -E- Major General Nazir Hussain Shah, the expression "Zone-E-Major General Chowdhury Nasir Ahmed, TQA," shall be substituted and shall be deemed to have been so substituted with effect from the date on which Major General Chowdhury Nasir Ahmed, TQA, assumed the office.

(5) In Paragraph (I) for the expression Zone-F-Maj. General Mohammad Jamshed, SJ, MC," the expression Zone F-Major General Khadim Hussain Raja shall be substituted and shall be deemed to have been so substituted with effect from the date on which Major General Khadim Hussain Raja assumed the office.

Sd.: -

General Commoander-in Chief, Pakistan Army,

And Chief Martial Law Administrator

Place : Rawalpindi

Date : 14 May, 1971.

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New baggage rules from today

Islamabad, May 14: the New Passengers Baggage Rules, promulgated recently by the Central Government for passengers and tourists arriving from foreign countries other than India, will be effective from tomorrow (May 15).

These rules specify the goods for passengers and tourists separately which can be imported as passengers baggage without payment of customs duties whereas the baggage rules for the passengers have been made more stringent. The baggage rules for the tourists coming into Pakistan have been modified for the first time.

Under the old baggage rules for passengers the household articles like refrigerators and air-conditioners could be informed customs duties under the new rules. These articles when imported as baggage will be subject to customs-duties. Such articles up to the value of Rs. 1,000/- can now only be imported on payment of customs-duties but without production of import permit provided the passenger has stayed abroad for ever three months.

The New Passengers Baggage Rules, it may be mentioned, have been notified in the Gazette of Pakistan (extraordinary) of April 27, 1971.

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