KARACHI: `The Government are quite alive to the situation and are fully equipped with powers under the Pakistan Public Safety Ordinance to take action as occasion arises,` the Interior Minister, Khwaja Shahabuddin said in Parliament yesterday [April 11] in reply to a question by Mr Nur Ahmad whether the Government were aware that `Communist and similar disruptive organisations are at work in Pakistan in the guise of welfare organisations`. Mr Nur Ahmed had also asked whether `the Government have drawn up any centralised scheme to curb the activities of Communists and other disruptive organisations`.

The same Minister said in a written reply to the same member that it has been decided to take the census of Pakistan in February, 1951, and necessary preliminary steps have been initiated. News agencies [Meanwhile, according to news agencies in Rawalpindi,] a 135-year-old woman died here on Sunday [April 9]. She claimed to have tasted Sikh rule in the Punjab at its worst and could recollect the days when the sun set over the Mughal Empire and the British gained supremacy.