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News Headlines:
- Holland's gift for E. Pakistan Refugees.
- 2,550 E. Pak refugees die of Cholera.
- Cholera Vaccine for refugees.
- Indians preventing bonafide Pakistanis from returning.
- Operators asked to ply vessels on routes given prior to March 26.
- Post offices in Bogra functioning normally.
- US plane to move refugees from border
- Islamic economic system practicable in Pakistan: Dr. Qureshi
Other Headlines:
- Majority of MNA's, MPAs still believe in one Pakistan –Begum Sulaiman.
- Pak UN accord on manner of relief operation in E. Wing.
- W. Pak Council of Governors meets.
- Eschew parochialism and provincialism, says Qayyum.
- India's Jingoism (Editorial col.) .
- Role of Armed Forces in East Pakistan. Restoration of law and order, Relief and rehabilitation. By Panaforce.
- India's concern for E. Pakistan Muslims wholly. perverse:commentary.
- 1,500 new post offices to be opened in East Pakistan during next 5 years.
- Govt. urged to take immediate steps to ameliorate distress.
The Hague, June 5(APP): Holland will make a gift of 1,500,000 guilders (about
170,000 sterling) money, medicines and food to aid Pakistani refugees in Pakistan
and India, the Prime Minister Mr. Petre Joing said here yesterday.
He told reporters after a cabinet meeting that Holland would also take initiatives for a coordinated European Common Market food aid campaign, and would contact United Nations Secretary General U Thant for an international relief campaign.
Krishnanagar (India) June 5(APP/Reuter): The death tall in the Cholera epidemic among East Pakistani refugees in Indian districts or India's West Bengal state last night reached 2,550 official sources said. About 1,200 of the victims died by the roadsides, where thousands of refugees are living in the open, the sources added.
There were also reports of Cholera death in the Malda Basirhat and Bongaon, areas
of 24 Parganas district, South-
Meanwhile, Pakistan President Yahya Khan has told an envoy of UN secretary General
U Thant that his Government was ready to co-
An announcement released at both the UN and in Islamabad, where the meeting occurred,
said President Yahya met Mr. Ismat Kittani of Iraq' UN Assistant Secretary General
for Inter-
The announcement said Mr. Kittani would go to Dacca next Monday accompanied by Mr.
Bahgat el-
London, June 5(APP/Reuter): British Relief Organisations yesterday announced plans to airlift some 1,600,000 doses of cholera Vaccine to East Pakistani refugees camps in India.
About a million doses will be flown out tomorrow by Oxfam at a cost of 20,000 Sterling. The Save the Children Fund is sending about 500,000 doses next week. Another organisation, "War and want" said it is sending 100,000 doses.
Cholera is now reported to be the big threat in the crowed refugee camps. An official of "War and want", the Reverend Wilfrer Kerr said it will be a major disaster if the refugees did not get back to Bengal by the time the Monsoon breaks at the end of the month. They will be flooded out, Mr. Kerr said, "Dysentery and Cholera will become rampant."
Oxfam has already sent two injector machines that can give 1,000 cholera (loses an
hour without touching the flesh thereby avoiding the need for sterilisation.
According to reports reaching Dacca an Indian Army patrol has apprehended 16 Pakistani nationals from the area opposite Comilla and seized all their belongings. The Pakistan nationals were returning to their homes in East Pakistan reports APP.
This clearly shows that the Indians are preventing bonafide Pakistani nationals from returning to East Pakistan.
The East Pakistan Inland Water Transport Authority has by a notification reminded the operators to ply their passenger vessels on routes given them prior to March 26, 1971. Vessels now lying idle are required to be brought into operation immediately and not later than June 9, 1971. Operators are also to report to compliance of this notification either personally or
through special messenger to the Director of Ports and Traffic: EPIWTA, DIT Building (Annexe); Motijheel, Dacca; by the above date giving particulars of their vessels and the routes they were operating on; before and immediately after March 26, 1971 and date of reversion to the original route given to them.
Non-
Bogra, June 5(PPI): Post offices all over the district have been functioning normally and there is no difficulty for postal transaction for anywhere.
After the recent disturbances the post offices have opened their counters for registration,
money-
Official of the post offices in the rural areas have been working normally. Madrasha under control of Madrasha Education Board have also been opened all over the district and attendance in them is regular.
Lahore, June 5 (APP): Dr. Anwar Iqbal Quresi; former Economic Adviser to the Central Government; yesterday said that the Islamic Economic system was practicable in Pakistan and those thinking otherwise lacked faith in the religion.
He was speaking on "the Islamic Economic System" at a function arranged by the Students Progressive Movement at a local hotel. Maj. Gen. (retired) Fazle Muqim presented. Dr. Qureshi said the main argument advanced by the critics of the Islamic Economic System was that banking system comes to naught if the institution of interest was abolished. But he said; they ignored the fact that more than 60 per cent, deposits in the banks were in current accounts on which interest was not paid. As to the fixed deposits, he said; the banks could give profit to the depositors according to the percent of their manual income instead of paying interest on the fixed rates.
He said that on the face of it the introduction of Islamic Economic System looked Cumbersome and complicated; but once the initiative was taken centersminedly; all difficulties in its way would be resolved automatically.
Dr. Anwar Iqbal Qureshi also spoke in detail on the philosophy of 'Zakat' and said in the Islamic economic system the payment of 'Zakat' could solve the problem of the concentration of wealth in a few hands.
Maj-
Washington, June 5 (APP): The United States will provide four large military transport planes to move some refugees from East Pakistan who are concentrated in the border areas of west Bengal and Tripura states in India.
The United States in also considering a substantial increase in its assistance, through the United Nations to the feeding and care of Pakistani refugees in India, State Department spokesman Charles Bray said yesterday.
The amount may go as high as 15 million dollars (6260,000 sterling) or about half
the estimated cost of feeding the refugees during the next three months. Mr. Bray
said, the C-
The first aircraft would leave from Pope Air Force Base, South Carolina as soon as arrangements have been completed.
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