KARACHI: The first batch of 125 stranded Pakistanis arrived in Karachi from Dacca yesterday afternoon [Sept 23] by a flight chartered by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees under the Delhi Agreement. Forty-five minutes later, 137 stranded Bengalis left by the same Ariana Afghan airliner for Dacca. ...

[B]ulk of the stranded Pakistanis who arrived ... belonged to the Chittagong Camp.

They were ill-clothed and carried very little personal effects. Only a few lucky ones wore an odd gold ring or wrist watch or had any jewellery. Among the stranded Bengalis was Mr. M.H. Chowdhury, a building contractor ... whose family included his Swati wife and two grown-up fair-complexioned Urduspeaking daughters. Mr. Chowdhury`s family was seen off at the airport by a large number of his Swati in-laws. ...

[P]akistanis arriving from Dacca represented a cross-section of population. ... They said that the Dacca authorities had permitted jewellery up to eight tolas of gold but remarked that the permission was meaninglessbecause the stranded Pakistanis hadno jewellery... . All their belongings, they said, were first subject[ed] to looting during the 1971 strife. Staff reporter