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07/0800 HOURS OF 14-09-1998

JOINT SITTING: The Joint sitting of Parliament will resume discussion Monday evening on whether Pakistan should or should not sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

A motion for discussion on the issue was moved on Friday and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Sartaj Aziz had made a statement on it.

The session has been called by the Government to develop a national consensus on the vital issue of CTBT.

The Prime Minister in his address to the Parliament on Friday had said the government is keen to benefit from the views of the members to reach a consensus which is unprecedented in the history of the country.

NADIR: The Federal Communication Minister, Raja Nadir Pervaiz has said Shariah will remain the supreme law in Pakistan as Islam is the very ideological base of this country.

Addressing a function in Faisalabad Sunday he said the current political, social cultural and economic crises are the result of our failure to enforce Islam in our practical lives. However, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has tried to break the status quo and a Shariat Bill has been introduced in the Assembly.

He lamented that disgruntled elements are opposing this purely religious issue only for their political interests.

About Faisalabad-Pindi Bhattian Motorway(M-3), the Communication Minister said that construction work on the project will be started very soon while arrangements are being made to dispatch heavy construction machinery on the site.

YASIN: Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Muhammad Yasin Khan Wattoo has said the government attaches high priority to national security, solidarity, integrity and sovereignty of the country.

He was addressing a function in Lahore Sunday organised to pay homage to recipients of Nishan-e-Haider and Martyrs of Kashmir. He said that nation can never forget the tremendous sacrifices offered by them to safeguard the frontiers of the country from external aggression.

PML-MEETING: Meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Party of Pakistan Muslim League and its allied parties in the National Assembly and Senate will be held in the Parliament House in Islamabad Monday at three p.m.

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will preside.

PPP MEETING: A meeting of the Senators and MNAs belonging to Pakistan Peoples Party and its allied parties will also be held in the Parliament House in Islamabad Monday at four p.m.

21/2200 HOURS OF 13-09-1998

WAHEED: The Chairman National Assembly's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mian Abdul Waheed has said Pakistan would make a decision on the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty after considering all security compulsions and geo-strategic realities.

In a press statement in Islamabad Monday, he said that no decision on signing of CTBT had been taken so far. The nation would not make any decision on the issues of national security on the dictates of any super power.

Mian Abdul Waheed said that May 28 nuke tests had forged unity among the people of Pakistan and reiterated that Muslim League government would not take any step which could harm the strategic balance Pakistan was enjoying vis-a-vis India after the nuclear detonation.

PML-SPOKESMAN: A pakistan Muslim League spokesman has called upon the people to realize that the national economy has started coming back on the track.

In a statement in Islamabad Sunday he said there was every reason to be optimistic about the future, because the efforts of the Nawaz Sharif government to boost agricultural production, arrest trade imbalance, increase overall productivity through initiation of self-employment scheme and reduce budget deficit were already showing positive results.

The spokesman said that approval of a billion dollar package by the Islamic Development Bank and establishment of pakistan Fund by Islamic Financial Institutions belied those, who had been predicting that Pakistan was bound to default on its foreign loans within days.

He hoped that the people would cooperate with the Prime Minister and continue their support for him in the spirit they demonstrated on the triumph in the nuclear field.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: The Speaker has announced that the sitting of the National Assembly earlier adjourned for Wednesday, the 16th September at 5 p.m. will now held on Tuesday, the 15th September at 10 a.m.

KASHMIR: In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Gilani has urged India to accept Jammu and Kashmir as disputed territory and recognize Kashmiris' right of self determination.

Addressing rallies at various places in Islamabad Anantnag district including a big public meeting at Bejbehara he and other APHC leaders criticised India for giving wrong colour to the present struggle of Kashmiris. They said Kashmiris are waging just struggle as Jammu and Kashmir had never been a part of India.

The APHC leaders emphasised that the world community must take urgent notice of the fact that the Indian rulers instead of fulfilling their promises had been carrying out genocide of Kashmiris through its seven hundred thousand occupation troops for the past nine years. In order to weaken Kashmiris struggle for liberation India had been trampling all human values in the occupied territory.

The Kashmiri leaders paid rich tributes to the freedom fighters whose unique sacrifices has put the Kashmir issue on top of the world agenda.

KILLED: Two religious scholars Allama Shoaib Nadeem and Maulana Habibur Rehman alongwith their driver and guard were gunned down by unknown assailants at Islamabad highway Sunday afternoon.