KARACHI: Pakistan is believed to have suggested to India that both the countries should give top priority to the question of return and rehabilitation of the minorities uprooted from their homes in the cycle of exodus started due to the recent disturbances in West Bengal.

The Prime Ministers of Pakistan and India were reported to be in touch with each other and were considering various proposals to check the exodus of the minorities from one country to the other and to prevent further trouble. The Government of East Pakistan, it was learnt, were also in constant communication with the Federal Government and the Governments of West Bengal and Assam over the matter. Staff correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Karachi,] the Government of Pakistan have finalised a Rs 5,00,000 economic uplift scheme for the Scheduled Castes in Pakistan... . The plan will be put into operation in Eastern Pakistan, where 95 per cent of the total Scheduled Caste population of Pakistan lives. Under the scheme two training-cum-production centres will be opened in each of the five districts where the scheduled Castes are mainly concentrated.