JAKARTA: Pakistan has called for the inclusion of People`s Republic of China in the Asian Development Bank. Speaking [at] ...

the annual meeting of the Bank here today [April 23], Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan, Pakistan Federal Minister of Finance, said that the membership of China will make the Bank more effective. [He] further said that China, being an important country in the region, can play a vital role in the smooth functioning and operation of the Bank. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Beirut,] with Lebanon`s 28th ceasefire being broken hourly Syria`s peace initiative crumbled ... and leftists took the first move to assume direct control of their own areas.

Mortar bombs and machine gun fire erupted sporadically throughout Beirut after a day of fighting that killed more than 100 persons.

... The leftists had threatened to establish a `Revolutionary Government` ... if a new President was not elected by May 2. The rightists have already set up their own administrative machinery in the Christian areas of Beirut and Mt. Lebanon. ...

Meanwhile US Special Envoy Dean Brown wound up his mediation mission... .