DACCA: According to reports ... an Indian Army patrol has apprehended 16 Pakistan nationals from the area opposite Comila and seized their belongings. The Pakistan nationals were returning to their homes in East Pakistan. This clearly shows that the Indians are preventing bona fide Pakistani nationals from returning to East Pakistan. … [T]he Indian Government yesterday [June 5] confined 30 West Pakistani diplomats to their residences in Calcutta. Both India and Pakistan closed down their respective Deputy High Commissions in Dacca and Calcutta but have been unable to agree on how the staffs should be repatriated. — Agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Quetta,] The Governor of Baluchistan, Lt-Gen. Riaz Husain, said here today [June 6] that June 15 had been fixed as the last date for dissolution of the local bodies.

[Agencies add from Moscow] Three Soviet cosmonauts were resting in orbit ... after successfully blasting into space for another linkup with Russia’s Salyut space station. … The commander of Soyuz-11 hinted in a pre-launch statement that the mission might carry out more complex tasks than its predecessor, Soyuz-10... . “On board everything is on order; feeling normally,” Col. Debrovsky reported as the rocket lifted slowly off the launching pad, picked up speed and streaked into the sky.

Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2021