Bhutto urges Pakistanis to sink differences
NEW DELHI JAN. 4President Bhutto today urged the people of Pakistan to sink their differences, saying “We should not think in terms of Sindhis or non-Sindhis,” says UNI.
He was speaking at the university auditorium in Hyderabad, Radio Pakistan said.
Mr. Bhutto said unity was essential to overcome the present crisis through which the country was passing.
Mr.Bhutto later arrived in Larkana his home town where he will celebrate his birthday tomorrow. he was accompained by the Sind Governor, Mr. Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, abd a Special Assistant Mr. Rah Raza.
The Pakistani Government is expected to take over more factories under President Bhutto’s order nationalizing ten categories of basic industry and public utility services, business sources in Karachi said today adds AP.
The plants would join the 20 firms already taken over and to which the Government has appointed managing directors and managing agents.
The report of additional take-overs came after newspaper criticism of the choice of enterprises taken over on Sunday. The afternoon daily Star said, “The surprising thing about the take-over was the seizure of one steel re-rolling mill while other retroolling mills as large as the one taken over by the Government and also having steel manufacturing capacity have not been touched.”
Reaction to the take-overs from businessmen was wary. The dawn a major English Language paper controlled by the Haroon family, one of he 22 which lost an auto assembly plant, said in an Editorial that State control of the industries specified is preferable to private control.”
It however, noted that many public enterprises ‘under a succession of regimes have not been particularly known for public accountability or operational efficiency.”
The Karachi stock exchange has been closed since the war with India started.
Businessmen said it was not likely to open until the takeovers were settled because the Governors of the exchange feared a sharp drop in market prices.
Reference: Hindustan Standard 5.1.1972