There was no issue of the paper on March 24, 1966 due to the Pakistan Day holiday. The following is from the March 23 edition.

EDITORIAL: This anniversary of the Pakistan Resolution ... is a special occasion when reminiscences of a quarter century of struggle and achievement by the Muslim nation will mingle with current thoughts on the more recent experience that tested its moral fibre. ... Today the Muslim League which the Quaid had revitalised for the realisation of Pakistan is once again being revivified under President Ayub`s dynamic leadership. ..

The vast masses of people who inhabit both wings of Pakistan and by far the great majority of the middle class intelligentsia are patriotic, well-meaning, united and capable of giving their best for the freedom and progress of their country. ...

But the activities of a few misguided and misguiding elements can be positively detrimental to the vital interests of the country. Earlier in Dacca the President had issued a grim warning to his countrymen that the fact had to be accepted that the nation faced disruption. He made pointed reference to those, devoid of any large national purpose or an all-Pakistan programme, who were spreading the gospel which was aimed at breaking up the country.

While the insidious threat of anti-national elements must be countered by all available means, including the use of force where necessary the President was perfectly right in declaring that the activities of disgruntled and embittered men seeking to wreck the integrity of Pakistan must primarily be met politically and the masses ... saved from the mischievous designs of those who think nothing of the disintegration of Pakistan as long as their own ends are served and personal ambition fed. It is against the danger of ideological subversion that the Government have to maintain a calm watchfulness. ...