THE Sind Government have taken several important measures to put down the Hur trouble in the border districts of the province. ... The Government, it is believed, took a serious view of the increasing Hur outrages in the border districts and felt that the Hurs were abusing the leniency shown to them following the establishment of Pakistan. It may be added that as a result of this policy, Hur concentration camps had been converted into agricultural settlements and about 200 Hurs released from jail.

[According to Dawn`s correspondent in Quetta,] Addressing a well-attended public meeting in ... Quetta, on Saturday [May 15], Chaudhry Khalig-uz-Zaman, Convenor of the All-Pakistan Muslim League Council, observed that the time for the observation of the Shariat laws in Pakistan had not yet arrived, especially in the penal laws, and [they] could not be enforced unless the people reformed themselves ... so as to deserve the epithet of true Muslims. `It would be extremely dangerous,` added Chaudhri Sahib, to enforce the ...

penal laws ... in a country where people were not all truthful and righteous.