Monday, September 7, 1998
Pak Oppn parties form alliance to oust Sharif
Seven Opposition parties, including Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Awami National Party (ANP), have formed a grand alliance which will oppose the proposed Islamisation Bill both inside and outside the Pakistani Parliament. The leaders identified the proposed 15th constitutional amendment for enforcing Islamic laws in the country as an immediate threat to the federation and constitution.
13 killed in Shimla mishap
At least 13 persons were killed and 36 others injured, ten of them seriously, when a Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus plunged into 250 ft deep gorge at Gallu on Hindustan-Tibet national highway, 18-km from Shimla yesterday, police said. Some bodies were still feared trapped under the wreckage of the bus, which was carrying about 50 passengers from Shimla to Dhamwari in Rohroo area of the same district.
Now, PM, Sharif to meet in US
Modalities for resumption of stalled Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan will be finalised when Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee meets Nawaz Sharif in New York on September 23 on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) general assembly session. The Prime Minister's principal secretary Brajesh Mishra said that final instructions on when the Foreign Secretary-level talks should be started would be given by them.
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