LAHORE: Rana Muhammad Hanif Khan, Federal Minister for Finance, said here today [Nov 8] that development process was continuing ... and the Government hoped that all annual development targets would be fully met at the end of the year. He was tall(ing to [a news agency]... . The Minister said the Finance Ministry was providing all the ... resources as were allocated in the Budget while the executing agencies were implementing the plans. ... ...Rana Hanif said the Government would ... encourage investment by foreign investors.
[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from London,] a report of a ... nuclear accident in the Soviet Union from an explosion of atomic waste materials was described by a British scientist ... as ‘highly unlikely’. Sir John Hill, Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ... was commenting on a report by a dissident Soviet scientist, Dr Zhores Medvadev, that a nuclear explosion, involving stored atomic waste, ‘killed hundreds’ of persons and caused ‘tens of thousands’ of cases of radiation sickness in 1958.