Special to the New York Times

New Delhi, March 30--The United States consul general in East Pakistan has asked Washington to evacuate all American women and children and some of the men from the province, where the Pakistani armed forces are fighting an independence movement.

Reports from the highest authority said that the consul general, Archer K. Blood, made the recommendation to Washington yesterday or today on the ground that foreigners are no longer safe in East Pakistan. There are about 1,000 Americans in East Pakistan.

United States officials in Washington said the Administration had not yet made a final decision and that therefore the Pakistani Government had not been asked for official permission for evacuation planes to land at Dacca. They said that the State Department was in continuing communication with the Consulate General in the East Pakistani capital and that the city was reported to be quiet.

Action began last Week

Some officials of the United States Embassy in New Delhi were reportedly characterizing the events in East Pakistan as "a massacre" of civilians there by West Pakistani troops. The embassy is believed to have official information on events there.

The military action in East Pakistan began last Thursday night. However, some foreign missions in Dacca evacuated their women, children and non essential men early this month when the first fears of widespread violence in the province arose.

The British are reportedly coordinating their evacuation plans with the Americans. In London, the foreign office said that no steps had yet been taken to carry out the planning but that the situation was being kept under constant review.

Meanwhile, the reports on what is happening in East Pakistan continued to be wildly conflicting.

The Government, through the Pakistan radio in West Pakistan, said the situation in all the major towns and the entire countryside in East Pakistan was normal, with the military in control. Broadcasts by the resistance movement said the troops from West Pakistan were retreating everywhere, with the resistance troops in control of most parts of the province including Dacca.

However, most independent reports reaching New Delhi indicate that in Dacca at least, the army is in fairly firm control. A group of Yugoslav evacuees whose plane stopped in New Delhi on its way to Belgrade said the situation in Dacca was generally quiet, but tense.

Curfew ends in daytime

They said that large numbers of West Pakistani soldiers were patrolling the city, but that the curfew had been lifted during daytime hours. They said they had seen shops open on their way to the airport.

Making it difficult to evaluate many of the reports on events in East Pakistan is the fact that foreign newsmen were expelled from there last week and that there has been a total blackout there of all normal news channels. In addition, all dispatches from West Pakistan are subject to strict censorship.

The Pakistan radio reported that the Pakistani Government had lodged its second protest with India, accusing the New Delhi Government of "continued interference in Pakistan's internal affairs." The protest objected especially to the Indian press reports coming from points near the East Pakistani border that are continuing to report heavy fighting by resistance groups against the army.

Shootings Reported

Unimpeachable independent sources in New Delhi said that in the early stages of the fighting the army had dragged high officials of the nationalist movement out of their houses and shot them dead. These sources described the officials as leaders of the Awami League, East Pakistan's dominant political party, but said they had not included Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the party chief and political leader of East Pakistan.

The army says it arrested Sheik Mujib last Friday morning in his Dacca residence but a radio station that says it is the voice of the resistance movement says he is alive and free.

Also according to the independent sources, three British subjects were lined up by the army against a wall in Dacca for execution when diplomats from the British mission arrived in time to save them. The three men were not members of the mission.

The sources also reported "eyewitness accounts" of "massacres of civilians" by West Pakistani troops areas throughout East Pakistan. The killings are still going on, the sources said.

Broadcasts attributed to the resistance movement said that the Pakistani Army's "invading forces" had virtually destroyed the port city of Chittagong by a concentrated sea, air and artillery bombardment, but that the "freedom fighters" were still holding out there.

A differing Account

The Pakistan radio, on the other hand, said the situation in Chittagong, like that in the rest of the province, was normal.

"Some miscreants who created disturbances have been effectively put down," it added.

While the military action in East Pakistan began last Thursday night when tan attack by West Pakistani troops on civilian population centers, the current crisis dates from March 1.

On that date, President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan postponed a session of the National Assembly that was to have met two days later to begin drafting a constitution returning the nation to civilian rule. That assembly, elected in December, was dominated by Sheik Mujib's Awami League which wanted regional autonomy.

During three weeks of strikes and other protest action, Sheik Mujib's party in effect assumed control of East Pakistan. The army struck Thursday night to reassert the central government's authority.

Two wings separated

The army's biggest problem, it appears, will be the hostility widespread among the 75 million East Pakistanis, who have long been dominated by the vested interests of the Western wing, with its minority population of 55 million people. The two parts of the country are separated by 1,000 miles of Indian territory.

Refugees fleeing the West Pakistani army are beginning to cross into India in large numbers, and the Indian Government is mobilizing a relief effort in concert with international agencies.

Sympathy for the Bengalis, as the East Pakistanis are called, is widespread in India. Many politicians are pressing the Government to recognize the government of Bangla Desh--bengali for Bengal nation. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is expected to move a resolution of solidarity with the Bengalis in Parliament tomorrow.