FUTURE OF PAKISTAN
Bhutto offered cooperation r.V.Z P.A.-Beutcr— Copyright) RAWALPINDI. Nov. 7. Mr Khan Abdul Wali Khan, president of the National Awami Party and the main Opposition leader in Pakistan. today offered to co-oper-ate with President Bhutto in establishing “a real democracy, and a progressive society.” "The country cannot afford politics of confrontation,” he told a public meeting in Peshawar. Mr Wali, whose party rules in two provinces, returned home recently from a long absence abroad, including medical treatment in London. He said that he hoped President Bhutto would encourage the development of a democratic atmosphere by ensuring complete freedom of the press; the release of all political detainees; and the ending of what he describee! at “a one-party monopoly ol the mass - communicatior media.” Mr Wali avoided comment on last month’s agreement reached during his absenc< between the Government ant the Opposiiton. on the shape of the future Constitution.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33068, 8 November 1972, Page 23
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