As 1966 was not a leap year, there is no Feb 29 issue. The following is a selection from the Feb 28 issue.

HYDERABAD: Mr Mahmudul Haq Usmani, General Secretary of the Pakistan National Awami Party today [Feb 27] called upon all the Opposition political parties to join hands with the NAP to struggle for the immediate withdrawal of emergency in the country and for the release ofallpoliticalprisoners.

Mr Usmani was addressing a workers` meeting today here at the party office. Mr Usmani said that NAP has no objection, but would rather take the initiative in forging alliances with the other opposition political parties without bargaining the fundamental principles of the party.

The only criteria, he further explained, will be the best interests of the toiling masses of the country.Suchalliances,he said,canthus onlybe forged on an issue-to-issue basis.

Mr Usmani, explaining the resolution of the National Council of the party for the establishment of a socialist society in Pakistan, said that this was the fundamental difference of NAP with the other political parties. Thus, he said, there can be no complete unity with other parties on all issues.

He said that `we want to establish a socialist society in the country through constitutional means by mobilising the great mass of the people and explaining to them, by uniting them on their economic and political issues`. Agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Lahore,] the Provincial Health Minister, Khan Mohammad Ali Khan, yesterday asked young women to join the noble profession of nursing in large numbers.

The Minister was speaking at the capping and graduation ceremony of Mayo Hospital nurses at the K.E. Medical College.

The Minister said he was also happy to know that `we are getting over the prejudices against the nursing profession and a much larger number of applicants are now coming forward`.