HONG KONG: The Cambodian Liberation Radio said today [April 15] the Khmer Rouge forces had captured Phnom Penh`s Pochentong airport, and the Cambodian capital `is on the point of collapse`. The announcement came as the Cambodian Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk declared in an interview that the new Khmer Government, which will replace the present military clique, will be non-aligned democratic and progressive, and not Communist. The broadcast, quoted by Radio Hanoi, added that `liberation forces have now liberated almost all the country`.

News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by our staff reporter,] President Fazal Elahi Choudhry said in Karachi ... that promotion of Arabic language will lay the foundation of greater unity among the Muslim countries of the world. Speaking at the first National Congress for Promotion of Arabic in Pakistan ...

the President said every Pakistani should learn the language of his religion and promote its learning. ... Arabic, being the Quranic language, the President speaking in Urdu said, enjoyed special place in the Muslim world. ... From the eighth century to 13th century Arabic was spoken from Pakistan to Spain and Somalia to Turkistan.