PARIS: Nawab Moin Nawaz Jung, former Hyderabad Foreign Minister, in a letter to the President of the Security Council says: `Since the last meeting of the Security Council to consider the question of Hyderabad was convened on Sept 28 a large volume of information ... has reached me, showing that atrocities on a large scale ...

are being committed against the helpless Muslim minority in Hyderabad. []The information also shows that a large number of Muslims in the public service ... are being replaced by non-Muslim officials brought in from outside Hyderabad.

`I therefore consider it my duty to invite the attention of the Security Council to the grave situation that has arisen as a result of the systematic and ruthless persecution of the Muslim minority in Hyderabad so that it may review the position at an early meeting and take such action as it may consider appropriate.` News agencies [Meanwhile, according to a Dawn staff reporter,] Rs210,000 worth of gold was seized by the Karachi Customs from a country craft at the Napier Mole Wharf on Saturday [Nov 6]. The gold, 25 seers in weight, was being smuggled to Bombay, it is alleged.