41.   Kuwaitis going to the polls on Monday will be voting in the only elected assembly among Gulf Arab states and the only one with legislative powers.

42.   No other Gulf Arab state has an elected assembly or one that has law-making powers.

43.   Official sources say the government hoped to have an elected state assembly in place by September or October, when the harsh Himalayan winter begins to set in.

44.   Opposition parties have denounced the second chamber as a means of controlling the elected assembly.

45.   Other independent Chinese press called for Beijing to consider the fate of the elected assembly in view of the good response to the elections.

46.   Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Monday announced a landmark decision to do away with a discretionary presidential authority to dissolve the elected national assembly.