Delhi. Nov 2
After a brief scuffle with their West Pakistani colleagues, most of the Bengali members of the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi defected to India today.

Eleven Bengalis on the clerical staff of the Pakistan mission decided to leave the residential compound this morning, said a spokesman for the Provisional Government of Bangla Desh, but West Pakistan security officials were posted at the gate and a scuffle broke out.

The defectors were eventually allowed to leave with their families and possessions, except for one man involved in intelligence work who, it was alleged, was dragged back into the mission and forcibly detained. So far 43 Bengali members of the mission staff in Delhi have defected.

Our Geneva Correspondent writes: Mr Walliur Rahman, the Second Secretary at the Pakistan Embassy in Berne, resigned his post today and asked for political asylum in Switzerland. He hopes to open a Bangla Desh information service in Geneva.