KARACHI: An appeal to the Muslims in Bharat to stay in their homes was made by Khwaja Shahabuddin, Minister for Refugee Rehabilitation, at a Press conference ... on Monday [May 1]. The conference was addressed jointly by the Minister for Refugee Rehabilitation and Dr A.M. Malik, Minister for Health and Works. Khwaja Shahabuddin said that saturation point had been reached in West Pakistan which could not take any more refugees from Bharat. No refugees could be settled in East Pakistan, either he added. The Minister also appealed to the 100,000 Muslims who had recently come over to Sind and Karachi to go back to Bharat. Conditions in Bharat he said were steadily improving and it was possible for them to return... .

In apointed appealtothe15,000refugees who had recently come to Karachi through Khokhropar to spread in the interior or to go back to Bharat,. Khwaja Shahabuddin said that conditions in the city were progressively deteriorating due to overcrowding. If the rush to Karachi was not immediately stopped it would become, a `city of disease, filth and squalor`. Staff correspondent