From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1947: Seventy-five years ago: Baluchistan decides.

QUETTA -- Baluchistan decided to join Pakistan today [June 30]. Fifty-four members voted 'en bloc' to join the new Constituent Assembly. Non-Muslim members were absent. An extraordinary joint session of the Shahi Jirga and elected members of the Quetta Municipality was held today to decide the issue of whether Baluchistan should join the existing Constituent Assembly or the new Constituent Assembly to be set up in Pakistan area.

[Meanwhile, as reported from Washington,] President Truman appealed for better treatment of negroes in the United States when he addressed the ... Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People here today [June 29]. 'Our immediate task is to remove the last...

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