KARACHI: Over 3,000 women, rich and poor, clad in Burqa with the Holy Quran in their arms attended the Chehlum ceremony of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and participated in the Quran Khwani at the Mazar on Thursday morning [Oct 21]. ...

Those present at the ceremony were Begum Zafrullah Khan, Begum Hussain Malik, Begum Zahid Hussain, Begum Jafar, Begum Sharif, Begum A.G. Khan, Begum N.A.

Farooqui, Begum Abdul Aziz, Begum Yaqub Shah and Begum Nazir Ahmad. ...

The Quran Khwani concluded with prayers for the peace of the departed soul of the Quaid-i-Azam. Miss Fatima Jinnah was unable to attend owing to indisposition.

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies from Paris,] the deadline for a new cease-fire in Palestine was fixed at 12.00 GMT tomorrow (Friday)[Oct 22] by Dr Ralphe J. Bunche, acting United Nations Mediator, tonight [Oct 21]. He cabled the Egyptian and the so-called Provisional Israeli Governments tonight: `We have assumed that both sides would issue cease-fire orders to their troops immediately upon official receipt of the Security Council`s resolution.