DACCA, ‘Pakistan, Sept. 18 (AP)—Despite President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan's announced amnesty for East Pakistani prisoners, Dacca remains a city of missing men.

A typical case is that of an eminent Dacca lawyer, Abdul Ahad.

“How is Alamgir Rahman?” he asked a banker friend about a prominent Dacca businessman, managing director of Standard Oil Company branch and intimate of the jailed Awami League leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Before long, friends were asking a similar question about Mr. Ahad. The army said he had been arrested but had been released and it had no news of his whereabouts. His wife insisted he was still alive although she has not seen him. Some friends believed he was dead.

Bengali Aide Missing

The army here also said it has no idea of the whereabouts of Syedul Hassan, a wealthy Bengali who once was commercial counselor with the Pakistan legation in London. He quit to become a backer of the pro-Maoist party of the Moslem preacher Maulana Hamid Khan Bashani.

Friends said he was arrested after the military seized a Hindu friend in Dacca. Mr. Hassan was last seen heading for an appointment in the army cantonment here, carrying a check that his jailed friend had requested.

The army commander in chief, Gen. Hamid Khan, announced an inquiry into the disappearance.

The absence of the two other men, Fazlul Hague Chowdhury, deputy managing director of Pakistan International Airlines, and Wing Comdr. M. A. Baaquie, regional manager in the East for a British‐Dutch trading concern, inspired rumors that they had been trying to arrange for an East Pakistani airline in the event that the region achieved independence.

Army Reports No Record

Friends said Mr. Chowdhury was last seen entering a vehicle driven by an army officer. The army said it had no record of his having been detained.

Bengali sources say at least 5,000 people have been imprisoned since the East Pakistanis acted to achieve greater autonomy and the Government repressed those efforts. The army does not confirm the figure. The fate of many has not been divulged officially. A salesman for a Chittagong concern failed to get an official explanation for the disappearance of a cousin, a jute mill manager in Jessore who was taken away in a truck by an army officer. He said the army insisted the man had been released.

Some who do not disappear in practice may do so on paper. A newspaper proprietor was arrested in Dacca in July and held without charge in the Dacca central jail. After two months, the warden said he had no orders on the matter so he could no longer permit the man's wife to bring him reading material. He suggested she apply to the police for, permission.

An inquiry to the police brought this response: “Since we have received no official word of your husband's arrest, we have no grounds for giving you permission to bring him reading matter.”