NEW DELHI.-About 4 million persons in the area of East Pakistan ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave last November face starvation because the civil war has halted emergency food distribution officials from the area said today.

In Paris, where representatives of 11 nations involved in the relief operations were meeting, it was estimated that as many as 30 million to 60 million of East Pakistan's 74 million Inhabitants could starve.

In Washington, officials also said the food distribution had been disrupted and urged the Pakistani government of President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan to resume shipments immediately.

Officials from the 10,000-square-mile disaster area said the relief work has stopped completely since the Bengalis declared their independence of the central government and civil war broke out March 26. The officials, who said they maintain contact with leaders of the Bangla Desh (Bengal Nation) liberation movement, said the area hit by the cyclone has gone mostly untouched by the fighting. The area consists of the Ganges River Delta districts of Patuakhali and Barisal and some 3,600 remote offshore islands in the Bay of Bengal.

The Bengali officials said 60,000 tons of food had been sent Into the area before March 26, but another 160,000 tons never was sent because the war shut down the ports in East Pakistan and the access roads to the area. The 200,000 tons of rice had been donated by the United States.

They said no food had been shipped to the victims for the past month also because there was almost no civilian administration in East Pakistan and the army, which handled much of the operation, stopped to concentrate on the fighting,

India today said Pakistan has ended restrictions on the movements of the Indian deputy high commissioner in Dacca, and informed sources said a compromise solution of the two governments differences could be expected shortly, Reuter reported.

A spokesman for the Indian foreign office said the restrictions on Sen Gupta were lifted Friday. India had alleged that Gupta had been virtually interned in his house since the Dacca mission was shut down on Monday.