ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly today [Sept 5] passed the Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Bill incorporating six amendments after a three-day debate, by 111 votes before adjourning sine die. The Opposition staged a walkout during the second reading of the Bill. Of the six amendments adopted in the Bill one extended the period for separation of judiciary from executive by two years only instead of three years proposed in the original Bill. During the second reading … Prime Minister Bhutto said the Government would ... try to achieve the ... objective of separation of judiciary from the executive within the next two years.

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Rawalpindi,] [PM Bhutto] today [Sept 5] set forth the basic considerations behind his appeal for a Third World summit for consolidating unity and mobilising full forces of the underprivileged peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America for liberation from international economic “exploitation and oppression”. In a 14-page ... article … Mr Bhutto gave a masterly analysis of the division between the rich and the poor nations … [and] efforts for an equitable international economic order... .

Published in Dawn, September 6th, 2026