Senator Edward M. Kennedy canceled plans yesterday to visit Pakistan, not because he didn't want to go there, but because he's not wanted by the Pakistani Government.

Mr. Kennedy, chairman of ft Senate subcommittee on refugee affairs, was greeted in Calcutta, India, by several thousand East Pakistani refugees chanting “Long live Kennedy.” Mr. Kennedy said he wanted “to see with my own eyes the plight of the seven and a half million refugees” who fled East Pakistan after the West Pakistan Army's crackdown on the separatists' rebellion.

From Dacca, East Pakistan's capital, Mr. Kennedy was to have gone on to Rawalpindi, the interim capital, in West Pakistan, for talks with the President, Gen. Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan and other officials. But the official news agency said the Senator “has been given to understand that no useful purpose would be served by his visiting Pakistan at the present moment with his mind already made up.”

Mr. Kennedy released his own statement: “Although recognize the sovereign right of any nation to control entry into its territory, regret that such restrictions should be invoked against those who seek to encourage and support humanitarian programs that can help meet the human needs of a troubled area.”