KARACHI: Another 1,350 Muslim refugees crossed into Pakistan through the Sind-Jodhpur border during the last 7 days, it is reliably learnt. Traversing vast deserts, these refugees daily pour into West Pakistan via Khokropar, arriving generally in a destitute condition. The last special train run by the Government … collected about 2,000 such refugees at Khokropar on April 29. Another … will be run to collect and disperse those refugees, now lying at Khokropar.

This influx of refugees will be taken up by Pakistan at the proposed Bharat-Pakistan conference on the permit system. Repatriation operations, it is understood, have still not been resumed because Bharat has so far not sent back the lists submitted to the Bharati Government by the Government of Pakistan for pre-verification under the new system. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Khatmandu,] a new Cabinet crisis threatens the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal because of discord between the former ruling clan of the Ranas and nationalist Nepali Congress party… . The Congress party which led the recent armed struggle for popular government … has urged King Tribhu­van to dissolve his two-month old Cabinet.

Published in Dawn, May 8th, 2026