KARACHI: Enunciating the Pakistan Government`s socio-economic policy Finance Minister Ghulam Mohammad announced in Parliament yesterday [March 29] that the Government wanted to remove large inequalities in incomewithoutaffectingindividualenterprise and personal freedom. The Finance Minister was defending the Government`s taxation policy during the final reading of the Finance Bill. The Bill was passed after a six-hour discussion spread over two days. Mr Ghu-lam Mohammad declared that the Gove-rnment wanted to bring about ... a `change for the benefit of the downtrodden` ... `without creating chaos and without loss of personal freedom`.

Nineteen Opposition amendments seeking reduction in the rate of Estate Duty and a abolition of increased duty on some of the imports were voted out... . Staff correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by Dawn London Office], the announcement of the intended visit to New Delhi by the Pakistan Prime Minister, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, has been welcomed by the British newspapers... . The reports of ghastliness let loose by mobs in West Bengal became a regular feature ... since the murder of ... British business man Mr Cameron... .