Karachi, June 10
The Pakistan Government today appealed to refugees from East Pakistan to return home and offered a general amnesty io include military deserters and politicians.

The appeal, issued in Dacca by Lieutenant-General Tikka Khan, Military Governor of East Pakistan. apparently omitted an earlier government statement that those returning would be carefully screened for “anti-state elements”.

Radio Pakistan said: "It is an amnesty to all classes of people, such is students, labourers, businessmen, industrialists, civil servants, the armed forces and other law enforcement agencies (including the East Bengal Regiment, the East Pakistan Rifles, police and militia), political workers and leaders, who are welcome to come back."

The Pakistan Army was sent into East Pakistan on March 25 to suppress the Bengali separatist movement, then dominating the province. Part of the Army (the East Bengal Regiment), the provincial police force, and all the militia forces joined the separatists.

Today’s announcement acknowledged that the refugees were subject to malnutrition and disease, adding that they should rejoin their countrymen in the task of reconstruction facing East Pakistan.

It said that reception centres for the refugees had been set up along important routes in East Pakistan near the Indian border, to receive those returning and provide free food, accommodation, medical assistance and transport to their homes.

Meanwhile, the government has announced that business, agriculture, industry, schools and communications in East Pakistan are back to normal and adequate food stocks are on hand. The curfew in Dacca, the capital, was being lifted tonight for the first time since March 25.—New York Times News Service.