By Our Foreign Staff
The Indian Government has given some voluntary relief agencies working among Pakistani refugees in India two days’ notice to withdraw their expatriate workers from the refugee camps. Other agencies are expected to receive similar instructions today.

The Government had earlier discouraged agencies from sending foreign staff to the camps, and asked them to relieve them as soon as possible.

The major agencies, in anticipation of this decision and for financial reasons, have already replaced almost all their foreign workers with others locally recruited and do not expect the latest moves to jeopardize relief efforts. Oxfam stated yesterday that kt least 90 per cent of its workers were Indian or normally resident in India and would therefore be allowed, to continue their work.

London-based agencies have been aware for some time that there has been friction between Indian Government officials, and a minority of foreign workers.