50 Years Ago -Opinion

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Defeat of Israel

BEIRUT: Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia declared in a newspaper interview published today [April 25] that the Arab...

Published 26 Apr, 2025 05:22am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Sino-Pakistan ties

KARACHI: Mr Li Hsien-nien, Vice-Premier of the People’s Republic of China, said in Karachi last night [April...

Published 25 Apr, 2025 06:44am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Sikkim annexed

NEW DELHI: The Lower House of the Indian Parliament voted 299 to 11 today [April 23] to annex Sikkim as an Indian...

Published 24 Apr, 2025 09:52am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: New curricula

KARACHI: The Federal Government will introduce a Bill in the next session of the National Assembly to enforce ...

Published 23 Apr, 2025 05:15am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Khmer Rouge barbarism

PEKING: CambodianPrince Norodom Sihanouk today [April 21] accused the C.I.A. of running a clandestine radio station...

Published 22 Apr, 2025 09:50am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Peking’s firm stand

RAWALPINDI: The Chinese Vice-Premier Mr Li Hsien-nien, has declared that the Chinese people will always remain...

Published 21 Apr, 2025 05:26am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Indo-China events

KAKUL: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said here today [April 19] that events in Indo-China will cast their ...

Published 20 Apr, 2025 07:40am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Bhutto’s felicitation

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has felicitated Cambodian Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk over...

Published 19 Apr, 2025 05:38am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Phnom Penh liberated

BANGKOK: The war in Cambodia is over. After weeks of heavy fighting in their final assault on the Cambodian capital,...

Published 18 Apr, 2025 06:49am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Second Indian blast

NEW DELHI: India is preparing for another nuclear test, the chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission ... Homi...

Published 17 Apr, 2025 08:57am

FROM THE PAST PAGES OF DAWN: 1975: Fifty years ago: Karachi curb on noise

KARACHI: Special measures to create a sedate atmosphere in the city were decided upon at a meeting of the Karachi...

Published 16 Apr, 2025 06:43am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Export prospects

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Commerce Minister, Mir Afzal Khan, said here today [April 14] the Government has every hope...

Published 15 Apr, 2025 09:30am

FROM THE PAST PAGES OF DAWN: 1975: Fifty years ago: Ceausescu welcomed

KARACHI: President Nicolae Ceausescu was accorded a cordial welcome when he arrived in Karachi from Manila yesterday...

Published 14 Apr, 2025 07:31am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Bhutto exposes Kabul

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a letter to the UN Secretary-General, Dr Kurt Waldheim, has ...

Published 13 Apr, 2025 08:37am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: PM thanks people

RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto tonight [April 11] thanked the people for understanding … the...

Published 12 Apr, 2025 06:24am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Sikkim King arrested

NEW DELHI: The Chogyal of the ancient Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim was officially “under the protection of Indian...

Published 11 Apr, 2025 06:45am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Vietcong near Saigon

SAIGON: Vietcong troops pushed into two province capitals within 40 miles of Saigon today [April 9]. Field reports...

Published 10 Apr, 2025 10:35am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Raise in prices

LAHORE: The Government decision to raise prices of certain commodities has been taken to rationalise the whole price...

Published 09 Apr, 2025 06:32am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: The arch episode

EDITORIAL: Our Staff Reporter’s account of the salvaging of the dismantled arch of the famous Shah Jehan Mosque of...

Published 08 Apr, 2025 09:28am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Foreign policy success

LAHORE: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto today [April 6] declared that his Government’s foreign policy had paid...

Published 07 Apr, 2025 06:13am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Islamic laws

RAWALPINDI: The Federal Minister for Religious Affairs, Maulana Kausar Niazi today [April 5] urged the Council of...

Published 06 Apr, 2025 05:58am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Bhutto counsels reason

GUJRANWALA: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto today [April 4] emphatically made it clear both to India and...

Published 05 Apr, 2025 05:10am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Supporters of 6 points

SIALKOT: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto declared here today [April 3] that all those individuals and political...

Published 04 Apr, 2025 06:29am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Sherpao murder probe

PESHAWAR: The NWFP Government today [April 2] announced that most of the accused involved in the assassination of Mr...

Published 03 Apr, 2025 08:12am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Mir Waiz thanks PM

RAWALPINDI: Mir Waiz Mohammad Farooq, Chairman of the Awami Action Committee, has thanked the people and the Prime...

Published 31 Mar, 2025 05:48am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Saudi reshuffle

RIYADH: King Khalid of Saudi Arabia today [March 29] reshuffled the Cabinet, appointing Crown Prince and...

Published 30 Mar, 2025 07:38am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Assad’s warning

BEIRUT: Syrian President Hafez Assad warned the Arabs today [March 28] against what he called the “danger of...

Published 29 Mar, 2025 07:04am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: King Faisal

EDITORIAL: The assassination of King Faisal … is, as Mr Bhutto has aptly said, an ‘indescribable tragedy’. ...

Published 28 Mar, 2025 09:03am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Indescribable tragedy

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has said that the passing away of King Faisal at this crucial moment is an...

Published 27 Mar, 2025 09:05am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Faisal assassinated

RIYADH: The Muslim world has plunged into deep mourning today [March 25] when the hands of a mentally unsound...

Published 26 Mar, 2025 07:09am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Kissinger’s failure

WASHINGTON: Dr Henry Kissinger blames Israel’s inflexibility for the failure of his Middle East peace mission,...

Published 25 Mar, 2025 08:47am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Sihanouk’s message

There was no issue of the paper on this date on account of the Pakistan Day holiday. The excerpt below is taken from...

Published 24 Mar, 2025 07:09am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Recapture the spirit

RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a message on Pakistan Day, has urged the nation to recapture the...

Published 23 Mar, 2025 08:47am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: No to cease-fire

LYALLPUR: Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto declared here today [March 21] that Pakistan does not want war with India or...

Published 22 Mar, 2025 06:41am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Bhutto slams Opposition

JHANG: The United Democratic Front demands, as a pre-condition to returning to Assemblies, what Afghanistan was...

Published 21 Mar, 2025 07:19am