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Other Foreigners Included on Flights to Karachi
Fighting said to go on
NEW DELHI, April 5—Scores of foreigners, including more than 100 Americans, arrived in West Pakistan today by emergency airlift from East Pakistan, where fighting was reported continuing.
A chartered airliner touched down in Karachi shortly after midnight carrying 110 Americans, 10 French nationals and 37 other people identified as employees of the United Nations and dependents. [A second plane, with 40 Britons and 10 more Americans among its passengers arrived later, Reuters reported, and 37 Americans were among 119 people who left aboard a British ship.]
Two more planes were clue in Karachi, tomorrow. United States Government employees and their dependents are scheduled to go on to Teheran, Iran, to stay until they can return to East Pakistan.
Reports from Karachi said that the United States Embassy there expected 650 of about 750 Americans in East Pakistan to be evacuated in the next few days, some by chartered planes and others on scheduled flights of Pakistan International Airlines.
Meanwhile, the official Pakistan radio, quoting reports from the East Pakistani capital of Dacca, said again; as it has each day since the military action began March 25, that the troops of the central military Government of President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan were in full control in the province. It said the “miscreants” were isolated.
While a news blackout continued in Dacca and other major East Pakistani cities where the army appeared to be in control—there was tight censorship also in West Pakistan—new indications were reported that the supporters of the independence movement were dominant in many rural areas.
A senior Foreign Ministry official here said the Indian Government had received reports that northern rural areas of East Pakistan were in the hands of resistance forces.