KARACHI: The Relief Commissioner of East Pal(istan, Pir Absanuddin, revealed .
on Thursday [July 12] that a fresh influx of Muslim refugees from West Bengal and Assam into East Pal(istan has begun. He told [a news agency] correspondent that recently about 400 uprooted Muslim families arrived in the Mymensingh district which adjoins Assam. ‘We have recently been faced with another problem of fresh refugee influx of Muslims from Nadia district in West Bengal and from Assam. These include the Muslims who had gone back for rehabilitation there as well as those recently uprooted in Assam, he said.
Asked to comment on ... statements of Bharati leaders ... on alleged exodus from East Pal(istan due to ‘insecurity’, the Relief Commissioner remarked: ‘There is perfect peace and tranquillity in East Pal(istan.
He asserted that ‘we have rehabilitated in East Pal(istan a vast majority of Hindus who have come bacl( from West Bengal, Assam and Tripura nearly 90 per cent of them.
‘The largest factor responsible for this has been the return of houses and lands to them.
In addition ... we have given nearly Rs 14 lalchs for the rehabilitation.