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Stranded Pakistanis preparing to return

Star Report
A symbolic repatriation of the stranded Pakistanis is set to take place December 30. of-ficial sources and SPGRC lead ers said yesterday.
A batch of 50 refugee families is to be flown to their cherished homeland on the day to honour the commitment of Pakistan government that the process of taking' 3000 families initially — of a total 2.38.000 people — will start by Ik'ccmbcr.
Islamabad made the pledge during Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia's August 9-1 I trip to Pakistan. The commitment was reaffirmed by Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif in Dhaka December 12.
The Chief Minister of Punjab. Golam Haider Wync, is expected to come to Dhaka probably a day ahead of the flight to oversee the token repatriation. Official sources in Dhaka however said yesterday that Wynes visit was yet to be finalised formally.
The Pakistani leader whose province would be home to the returnees is likely to return the next day taking along the refugees.
The 50 families consisting of 282 members have been selected from the Adamjcenagar Vamp. They will be driven straight to the airport with all formalities such as customs
clearance done In the camps.
Transit camps will however be set up later before the process of sending the rest of the 3000 families begins. The 2,38.000 refugees arc sheltered in some 66 camps across the country.
Speaking on the process of return to and the rehabilitation In Pakistan, Nasim Khan, the Chief Patron of the SPGRC, said that the returnees would first be flown to the provincial capital I-a ho re from where they would be taken to different reception centres in Punjab.
The repatriated Pakistanis would be given monthly allowances and other facilities for 18 months on their return, Khan said. They would later be Included in the voters' list of the Punjab province.
Khan met Wync December 12 when I he latter' wps in Dhaka accompanying Prime Minister Sharif.
With the announcement of repatriation, the would-be returnees began selling their properly and other belongings. Many of them have already le’fl their jobs.
"I have already left piy job and sold off some of the household goods . . . I'm now waiting for a go-ahead," said Muhammad Islam, a security guard in the Adamjcc Jute Mills.
AFP from Islamabad says : The first batch of 18.000 stranded Pakistanis known as Biharis are to be repatriated from Bangladesh within a few months. Minister for Parlia--mentary Affairs Amir Hussain told the House Thursday
Arrangements have already been made to provide housing facilities for some 3.000 families in Punjab province where the Biharis are to be settled, he said.
The minister said the exact date of their arrival would be fixed later as the construction work in Punjab's Mian Chunnu district 1s to be completed in a few months time.
He said the government had allocated 130 million rupees ■ (more than five million dollars) with the help of the Jeddah based Rabita Alam-e-lslami (World Islamic- Congress) for their resettlement
The Ordu-speaking Bihari community migrated from the Indian stale of Bihar after the partition of the subcontinent into Independent Pakistan and India In 1947.
After, the creation of Bangladesh in the former province of East Pakistan, the Biharis refused to become pari of the new state. They have been stranded In camps In Dhaka since the country's In-dependenceJn 1971,