Ex-Pakistani cabinet minister Yusuf Buch passes away.

NEW YORK -- Yusuf Buch, a former Pakistani cabinet minister and diplomat, passed away on Friday evening at his home in New York. He was 98. Buch, who is best known as an eminent expert on the Kashmir dispute, was not keeping good health lately and had returned to his apartment from a hospital three days ago. From 1972 to 77, he worked for former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as his special assistant. He then served as Pakistan's ambassador to Switzerland. Later, Buch joined the United Nations at a senior position and worked as a speech writer for former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim until his retirement in 1991. Buch came to the United States in 1953 as a winner of an International Essay Contest sponsored by the United Nations. Later, he ran a Free-Kashmir Centre in New York from 1957 to 1972. He has written extensively on the...