From Our Own Correspondent
Washington. July 13
The United States will withhold economic development and technical assistance funds from Pakistan, except for humanitarian relief, until the central government provides a new list of development projects that take account of the situation in East Pakistan, State Department officials disclosed today.

The disclosure coincided with the publication by The New York Times of sections of a confidential World Bank report which concluded that all International development efforts in Pakistan would have to be suspended for a year or more.

The State Department spokesman, Mr Charles Bray, emphasized that despite the general suspension of aid to Pakistan “we have not altered our humanitarian relief to East Pakistan”.

Our Foreign Staff write :
Supplies of wheat, rice and coal, paid for by the West Pakistan Government, are beginning to move into East Pakistan for the first time since the civil war began. At the same time the jute export trade from East Pakistan is beginning to pick up.

Ney Shipping Ltd, a British-based firm of ship brokers, is arranging the transport of 60,000 tons of wheat and 30,000 tons of rice from Karachi to East Pakistan.

At the same time, a further 53,000 tons of rice will be shipped by the West Pakistan Government from Shanghai, Burma and Japan to Chittagong and Chalna, the two main ports in the eastern wing. The West Pakistanis are also buying 150,000 tons of coal from China for shipment to the East.