KARACHI: A public meeting of refugees was held on Sunday [Dec 21] evening in Rambagh ...

Mr I.L Chundrigar, Commerce Minister, Pakistan, presided. Maulana Abdul Hamid Badauni, Hakim Mohammad Ahson, Mayor Karachi, Mr Ahmad, Refugees Officer, Sind Government, and several refugees from Indian states, Delhi and the East Punjab addressed the meeting. Hakim Mohammad Ahson ... said that Pakistan fully realises the difficulties of the refugees, but what was really needed ... was patience and self-reliance, and the most necessary work to be done by refugees themselves was to have only one organisation. Pakistan, he said, was just a newly born state and the ...

gigantic refugee problem was too heavy to carry unless there was a systematic way of doing things. He also requested them not to hanker after Government service but to take to industry, trade and farming also. News agencies [Meanwhile, according to news agencies in Rawalpindi,] Fifty-five Kashmir Muslims who have returned from pilgrimage to Mecca have decided to join the Azad Kashmir forces to enter their homes in the valley only as `free people`.