Karachi, July 30.—President Yahya Khan today accused India of continued shelling over East Pakistan and said total war was “very near” in the Indian subcontinent.

“I am watching the situation”, he said. “If the Indians have the idea of taking a chunk out of East Pakistan, it would mean war. Let me warn them and the world, it means total war. I am not looking for war and trying to avoid it. But there’s a limit to- my patience.”

President Yahya, speaking in Karachi to foreign television journalists, said India was continuing to shell and mortar the borders of Pakistan’s eastern province.

He denied allegations that his military regime was carrying out a policy of genocide in East Pakistan. The fear of Hindus in East Pakistan was due to “machinations” across the border, he said.

India was preventing the return of East Pakistanis, who fled across the border as a result of the outbreak of civil war in March, to force a political settlement in East Pakistan, he said. He would not allow pressure from nations threatening to cut aid to Pakistan to force a political settlement in East Pakistan.

President Yahya said the cutting or slowing down of economic aid would affect 70 million East Pakistanis for the “sake of a few millions who had been used as political pawns.” Foreign countries which had offered aid but were now withholding them had done so for “ulterior” and not humanitarian motives,—UPI.