LYALLPUR: Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto declared here today [March 21] that Pakistan does not want war with India or Afghanistan but if a war was thrust upon us, `we will fight to the last man and will never be coerced to agree to a cease-fire`. Maintaining that Pakistan stood for peaceful relations with her neighbours, he warned that armed conflict in the area might lead to a wider conflagration and could bring disaster to the whole of the sub-continent and Afghanistan. ... Mr Bhutto said his Government had decided to ban the NAP after careful deliberations and would never lift it as demanded by the Opposition. ... He said that the anti-national activities of the NAP were as old as Pakistan itself in fact its leaders had bitterly opposed the establishment of Pakistan. ...

The Government had reached these conclusions ... after thoroughly studying their activities. Special correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Addis Ababa,] Ethiopia`s Left-wing Military Government ... abolished the crown in an apparent move to prepare the grounds for the eventual proclamation of a socialist republic. A proclamation issued by the ruling Military council ... cancelled the title of prince and princess.