KARACHI: Drastic land reforms were demanded at the concluding session of the Pakistan Muslim League Council ... on Monday [Feb 21]... . The Council issued a directive to the working committee to draw up a `charter of rights` for the peasantry.

All the 12 speakers who participated in the ... discussion ... agreed that the institution of zamindari in its present form was an evil.

While a section demanded that zamindaris should be abolished `right now` and `without compensation` others held that the matter should be left for the Constituent Assembly, to decide at the time of framing the new constitution. Staff correspondent [Meanwhile, according to news agencies from Lake Success,] the vast problem of resettling millions ... who migrated to Pakistan since last year is stressed in a reply of the Pakistan Government to a United Nations` questionnaire on employment conditions in member states. The ... reply points out that since August 1947, 6,500,000 Muslims have entered Pakistan as against the 5,000,000 who left the country. `The rehabilitation of these uprooted Muslims is the biggest economic problem of Pakistan, the reply says.