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From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Third World workers

ISLAMABAD: Millions of the lowest paid workers in the Third World have been hit hard by inflation because their...

Published 30 Sep, 2026 07:06am

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From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Form of government

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Bhutto has said that the choice between parliamentary and presidential forms of democracy...

Published 29 Sep, 2026 07:50am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Lifting emergency

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Bhutto has said it would be unrealistic to lift the state of emergency till the objectives...

Published 28 Sep, 2026 05:56am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Kohinoor’s return

LONDON: The fabulous historic Kohinoor diamond, part of Britain’s crown jewels, will not be handed over to Pakistan which had...

Published 27 Sep, 2026 08:37am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Concern for victims

RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, while extending Eid greetings to the people of Pakistan, has urged...

Published 26 Sep, 2026 05:49am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Enrolled voters

FIFTY per cent of the total population of the country had so far been enrolled as eligible voters in the forthcoming general

Published 25 Sep, 2026 08:12am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: UAE Presidency

CAIRO: Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of the five-year-old United Arab Emirates, is not renewing his term...

Published 24 Sep, 2026 08:08am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: G77 summit proposal

MEXICO CITY: The conference on economic cooperation among developing countries, which concluded early this morning...

Published 23 Sep, 2026 07:31am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Haneef Ramay jailed

LAHORE: Mr Mohammad Haneef Ramay, a Senator and former Chief Minister of the Punjab, has been sentenced to...

Published 22 Sep, 2026 10:30am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Turkish plane crash

ISPARTA (Turkey): A Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 on a flight from Italy to the Turkish Mediterranean resort of ...

Published 21 Sep, 2026 04:45am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Dangerous buildings

THE menace of dangerous buildings was increasing at an alarming rate in Karachi as out of 114 buildings declared...

Published 20 Sep, 2026 08:31am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: A nation’s feelings

PEKING: Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, First Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and...

Published 19 Sep, 2026 04:07am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Islamic Bank

MEXICO CITY: The Islamic Development Bank represents an example of collective self-reliance, the central theme of ...

Published 18 Sep, 2026 08:07am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Kashmir stand

MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reiterated here today [Sept 16] that there is only one dispute...

Published 17 Sep, 2026 07:47am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Rapid transit system

THE feasibility report prepared by the Rapid Transit Cell about the integrated rapid transit system for the City...

Published 16 Sep, 2026 06:51am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Lyari toll goes up

THE death toll in the Bismillah Building tragedy has risen to a staggering 127... . … During the 22-hour hazardous...

Published 15 Sep, 2026 07:32am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Building collapse

EIGHTY dead and 48 injured persons were recovered till midnight last night from the debris of six-storey Bismillah...

Published 14 Sep, 2026 07:04am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Mao lies in state

PEKING: The body of Chairman Mao Tsetung lay in state tonight [Sept 12] and extraordinary scenes of grief were...

Published 13 Sep, 2026 08:43am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Mao’s affection

There was no issue of the paper on Sept 12, 1976, on account of the Quaid’s death anniversary. The excerpt below ...

Published 12 Sep, 2026 04:55am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Hijacked Indian plane

LAHORE: An Indian airlines Boeing 737 carrying 77 passengers and a crew of six which left New Delhi for Jaipur on ...

Published 11 Sep, 2026 08:12am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Mao passes away

PEKING: Chairman Mao Tsetung, founder and builder of New China and one of the world’s greatest revolutionaries ...

Published 10 Sep, 2026 06:55am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Attache found dead

AN Assistant Attache of the Thai Consulate-General in Karachi, Miss Pontip, was found dead at her residence in the...

Published 09 Sep, 2026 06:48am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Bolan Dam collapses

HEAVY rains in Kirthar Range and the collapse of Bolan Dam have created a grim situation along the flood protective...

Published 08 Sep, 2026 09:33am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Karachi Bar’s call

There was no issue of the paper on Sept 7, 1976 on account of the Defence Day holiday. The excerpt below is taken...

Published 07 Sep, 2026 04:37am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Fifth Amendment

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly today [Sept 5] passed the Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Bill incorporating six...

Published 06 Sep, 2026 04:08am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Coexisting in harmony

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said today [Sept 4] his Government wanted “harmonious ...

Published 05 Sep, 2026 04:01am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Constitution’s basics

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Z. A. Bhutto said in the National Assembly today [Sept 3] that the Fifth Constitution...

Published 04 Sep, 2026 07:52am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Rs 1460m ‘black money’

RAWALPINDI: A total amount of Rs 1460 million was declared by holders of concealed income by midnight of Aug 31 —...

Published 03 Sep, 2026 08:19am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Separate High Courts

ISLAMABAD: A Constitution (Fifth Amend­ment) Bill introduced in the National Assembly today [Sept 1] provides that...

Published 02 Sep, 2026 07:01am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Black money deadline

KARACHI: The deadline set by the Govern­ment for declaring “concealed wealth” ended midnight last night [Aug...

Published 01 Sep, 2026 09:11am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: M-E Labour Attaches

THE Government will appoint Labour Attaches in its missions in the Middle East countries and Persian Gulf States...

Published 31 Aug, 2026 08:11am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Revised final rolls

PESHAWAR: The Chief Election Commissioner, Mr Justice Sajjad Ahmed Jan, has said that the revised final electoral...

Published 30 Aug, 2026 07:57am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Black money extension

THE Federal Finance Minister, Rana Mohammad Hanif has categorically declared that the last date to file declarations...

Published 29 Aug, 2026 04:56am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Uranium supply

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Defence and Foreign Affairs Aziz Ahmed today [Aug 27] denied the allegation that...

Published 28 Aug, 2026 08:35am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: N-plant sale

PARIS: France [will go] ahead with the sale of a nuclear reprocessing plant to Pakistan, Presidential Palace...

Published 26 Aug, 2026 07:47am