From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: Federal constitution.

PESHAWAR -- The NWFP Assembly here ... adoApted three resolutions calling for an Islamic, Federal and Parliamentary, democratic ConstituAtion, complete ban on gambling in the Province and setting up of the industrial units based on natural resources in the Province. Through the resolution on the Constitution ... [it was] recommended to the National Assembly to frame the permanent Constitution, so as to be truly Islamic, Federal and Parliamentary [and] democratic in character, providing for bicameral legislature, with equal representation to all the provinces in the Upper House. The resolution said that under the Constitution the Government should be answerable to the Parliament. All powers...