The Hindu (India): Pakistan to abstain from second resolution on Iraq

Breaking off from its image as a `client-state' of the United States, Pakistan has decided to abstain from the second resolution on Iraq tabled by the U.K.-U.S. combine in the United Nations Security Council.

The Pakistan Prime Minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, chose to explain the rationale to his people through a public address televised and broadcast on the state-run electronic media. Incidentally, it is Mr. Jamali's first speech to the nation since he took office four months ago.

The U.S. getting nine votes looks impossible now.