MOR E than 10,000 persons stood up at the call of Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and took the pledge that `If Pakistan-made cloth is available I will under no circumstances purchase foreign cloth,` at a meeting of the Pakistan Spinners` and Weavers` Association, held in Karachi on Friday night [May 21]. Sounding a note of warning to the people of Pakistan, the Prime Minister said that ... Pakistan could not afford a yearly drain of about 70 to 80 crores of Pakistan money on cloth. Money was needed for something more important, and Pakistanis had to conserve their wealth to buy it. ... If the Pakistanis stuck to Pakistan-made cloth it would give employment to lakhs of weavers and spinners.

[Meanwhile, it was reported that] The Sind Government have issued orders under the Sind Maintenance of Public Safety Act, 1948 ... banning the printing and publishing of Al-Wahid, the local Sindhi daily, for six months with effect from May 21. The Government have also served orders under the same Act on Maulvi Abdul Ghafoor Sitai, restricting his movements within the five miles of his village Sitai for a period of six months. Mr Sitai has been given three days` time to quit Karachi.