Refugee committee
2025-08-02
KARACHI: The government of Pakistan have appointe d a high-powered committee `to plan and execute` refugee rehabilitation ... in Karachi and Sind, announced a press communique... . The High-Powered Committee consists of 13 members, including the President of the Muslim League, the Central Minister and the Deputy Minister for Refugees, the Sind Premier and Sind`s Refugee Minister, the Administrator of Karachi... . ...[T]he Committee has been appointed in view of `the magnitude of the refugee problem in Karachi and Sind and the urgent need for rehabilitation of refugees`. Staff correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in London,] Mr Altaf Husain, Editor of Dawn, in a recent issue of the New York Herald Tribune asserted that the headquarters of the United Nations not London, Paris nor New Delhi was the `proper venue` for dealing with unsettled problems which threatened peace. ...
He took issue with Mr J.J. Singh, President of the India League of America, who had urged in a letter to the New York Herald Tribune that a conference of Asian countries should immediately be called, `perhaps in New Delhi`, to discuss plan for Formosa and Indo-China.