KARACHI, Pakistan, April 14—The Pakistani Government reported today that its troops, pushing west from Dacca, had reached the key town of Rajshalli and had “wiped out all miscreants and Indian infiltrators in this area.”

The report was broadcast late this afternoon by the Pakistani radio. Deriding the “miscreants and infiltrators,” the radio said “they now have to face the combined force of the people and the armed forces—that is why the ground has been cut out from under their feet and they are running away.”

The radio also said that “economic activities in Dacca have been increasing” and denied what it said were Indian reports that it had staged heavy bombing raids in East Pakistan and had destroyed a holy man's tomb. Reports by the central Government in Karachi—which is West Pakistan—have claimed increasing control in the East, where movement for autonomy and later independence was met by the Pakistani Army by force on March 25.

Bhutto Holds News Parley

Meanwhile, in a statement here, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, now Pakistan's most powerful political leader, said that Pakistani authorities would strive for a “political settlement of the East Pakistan problem” once the situation comes under control.

Mr. Bhutto, head of the Pakistan People's party, spoke at a thronged news conference in his party's columned headquarters here. In a statement’ that lasted more than an hour, he analyzed the Pakistan situation.

Mr. Bhutto said he had been in close consultation with President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan. He said the country was going through a “terrible ordeal” and he criticized what he said was “exploitation” of East Pakistan in years past. He said “we must evolve a system” where all Pakistanis could live “in an equitable, economic system and under the cover of democracy and under one flag.”

Mr. Bhutto was formerly Pakistan's Foreign Minister. His party, with all its strength, in West Pakistan, won 88 of the 313 seats in the national, assembly in the December”, election. This made it second to the East Pakistani Awami, League.

‘Gravest’ Crisis Since ‘47

The league's chief, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, is said by officials here to be in Government detention in West Pakistan and the Awami League has been banned. It was the, postponement of the convening of the assembly that provoked the league into its autonomy struggle in the east.

Mr. Bhutto said the present crisis was “the gravest emergency we have ever faced” since the founding of Pakistan in 1947.

Turning to the future, Mr. Bhutto said:

He added, “The present crisis is a legacy of past blunders.” He said, “We must willingly give the people of East Pakistan their legitimate rights,” but he did not make specific proposals for a settlement.

In answer to a question after his statement, Mr. Bhutto said a gradual easing of restrictions on political activity in Pakistan “would be necessary, would be productive.”

Earlier he had said that because of recent restrictions on the press as well as on political activity, “productive and constructive public activities get restricted and instead of useful political activity, rumor‐mongering goes on.”

“At the same time,” he said, “naturally there is a need for vigilance and a need for sensible control.”

But Mr. Bhutto urged that the people be taken more into the Government's confidence concerning events in the East.”

The Pakistani radio, in giving details of the sweep In Rajshahi, said, “It was officially announced in Dacca today that the Pakistani armed forces have restored river‐boat traffic, which had been interrupted from Dacca to the Padma area, including Ariche and Nagarbari.”

It continued: “An army column which was sent from Dacca went from Pabna via Ishurdi and Nator and connected with the Pakistani Army garrison in Rajshahi.”