The following dispatch was written by Arnold Zeitlin, an Associated Press correspondent who left East Pakistan yesterday. Censorship has prevented the dispatch of news


COLOMBO, Ceylon, March 28--The Pakistani army took full control of Dacca today. Fighting that lasted two nights and a day is believed to have taken the lives of 5,000 to 7,000 persons in the area.

Sheik Mujib was reported by reliable sources in Dacca to be under arrest. Thousands fled the city. Sheik Mujib's resistance against the central government in West Pakistan appeared to have collapsed.

A curfew was lifted in Dacca for a few hours today but was imposed again.

The army ordered workers to report to their jobs yesterday but most had either refused or had fled the city. There were some who did report, however.