KARACHI: The Governor-General of Pakistan yesterday [July 31] made a personal appeal to the King of Saudi Arabia to lift the ban imposed on travel from Pakistan to the Hedjaz. In a telegram ... H.E. Khwaja Nazimuddin has explained the hardships ...

caused to Pakistan pilgrims by the Saudi Arabian restrictions on sea and air traffic.

Refusal to allow the steamers which have already left Pakistan for Jedda, to disembark their passengers, he says, will be a great hardship to pilgrims who left before the restriction had been imposed.

The Governor-General has pointed out that the ban will prevent thousands of Pakistani Muslims from performing their `cherished and sacred duty`. Assuring the King of Saudi Arabia of Pakistan`s anxiety to `do everything to prevent spread of any epidemic ... , the Governor-General has stressed that Pakistani health authorities were taking all ... precautions to prevent export of cholera.

Emphasising that examination by Pakistan health authorities was `very strict indeed` the Governor-General has pointed out that `there has been no case in which a Pakistani has taken cholera into Hedjaz`. Staff correspondent