ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly this morning [April 7] proceeded without the Opposition members to pass the remaining 34 Articles of the Constitution which earlier were deferred in the hope that they will be passed with the Opposition`s participation.

The Law Minister, Mr. Abdul Hafeez Peerzada, in a brief statement ... regretted the Opposition`s absence from the House and said: `Having defeated them inside the Assembly, we will eliminate them politically outside the House also.

...[T]he Law Minister declared: `We will put the last nail in their coffin so that they never rise again.` Expressing the hope that the Constitution will be passed in the next two or three days, he said: `The members of my party and of the other parties which have stood by us in the task of Constitution-making are revolutionaries.` He complimented them for having stayed in the House for so many months in order to give the country a constitution... . Special Representative [Meanwhile, as reported from Islamabad,] official sources here ... described as incorrect a foreign news agency report from Teheran that 25 Pakistani nationals had been expelled from Iraq. These sources pointed out that Pakistanis returning from Iraq were those who had gone to perform Haj or Ziarat.