LAHORE: Pakistan has become the biggest exporter of cotton yarn during this fiscal year and has captured 35 to 45 per cent of the world market. This was disclosed by Federal Finance Minister Dr. Mubashir Hasan at a Press conference ... in the Customs House here this morning [July 21]. He further revealed that cotton growers in the country were now getting highest ever prices for their produce. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Dubai,] the Armed pro-Palestine group, whichyesterday[July20]hijackeda Japanese Jumbo airliner, took the plane to Dubai today and warned security forces ringing the airport to keep back or they would blow up the plane. The giant jet landed safely here after midnight having already survived a mid-air explosion of a hand grenade which killed a woman hijacker and wounded a crew member soon after takeoff from Amsterdam... .

The Japan Airlines Boeing 747 carrying 145 people was forced to land at this Gulf State after a flight over about a dozen nations in Europe and the Middle East. ... [O]ne of the hijackers is a Japanese and two others were Ecuadorians, but the nationality of the fourth hijacker was not known.