KARACHI: Pakistan`s Minister for the Interior, Khwaja Shahabuddin, stressed in an interview ... on Wednesday [April 19] afternoon that `there should now be no cause for panic and the minority should be able to shed their fear and stay on in their homes`.
`This is my sincere advice to the Muslims of Bharat,` he added [.] Answering questions on Pakistan Government`s permit policy, the Minister for the Interior told the APP that the Government had, for a short period considerably relaxed this policy `on account of a heavy influx into West Pakistan of refugees from northern and central Bharat`.
This mass migration, he observed, still continued in some proportion and caused anxiety to the Government. The vast majority of the in-coming refugees were townsmen who insisted on settling down in the larger cities like Lahore, Hyderabad (Sind) and Karachi.
Pointing out that these cities were already over-crowded `and offered no scope whatever for rehabilitation`, Khwaja Shahabuddin said: `The refugees cannot come to these towns without running serious risks or putting themselves to considerable hardships.
