KRISHNAGAR, India, March 31 — Pakistani troops have apparently failed to consolidate their positions in rural areas of East Pakistan, and small groups of about 100 are believed to be retreating to major towns.

This picture of the situation in East Pakistan, where the fighting between the army and an independence movement began last week, is based on military radio messages monitored here on the Indian side of the border and on information furnished by telephone today from East Pakistan.

Phone Call Put Through

A request to the Indian telephone exchange to reach the small town of Kushtia, in the southeastern part of the province, and then to head quarters of the resistance army brought a man identified as Dr. Babul Huq onto the line.

He explained that he was sec and in command to Maj. Mohammad Osman Choudri, commander of the southeastern headquarters of the army and that the headquarters was in a Government rest house.

Pakistani aircraft dropped about 15 bombs on the town last night, he said, and killed a large number of Pakistani soldiers in the city school.

Dr. Huq said a number of them had been isolated in the school and surrounded by a huge mob. They attempted to escape when their ammunition was nearly gone, he went on, and scattered under cover of, darkness while firing light machine guns.

Thirty of the soldiers were captured and beaten to death, he added, and “the rest of them dispersed, but we are hunting them down and should deal with them tonight.”

People Dying Like Flies

Dr. Huq said that he could not estimate casualities but that people were dying like flies.

“A 12‐year‐old boy killed a machine gunner with a shotgun last night,” he said.

Indicating that the army was in control in the major urban areas, Dr. Huq said that the resistance forces had cleared Kushtia area.

Dr. Hug could not give details of the whereabouts of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, leader of the Awami League, East Pakistan's principal party. In spite of the resistance army's contention that Sheik Mujib was free, Dr. Huq could not explain why his voice had not been heard on the so‐called Free Bengal radio.

The intense hatred between the Bengalis of the East and the western peoples manifested itself on the border here to day when jubilant villagers rushed to the border post to exhibit the heads of West Pakistanis. They related that isolated soldiers in the eastern part of the province had been killed by members of the militia called the East Pakistan Rifles and by villagers.

Indian journalists who entered East Pakistan today said troops had been surrounded by mobs and routed in the north ern town of Rangpur.

Toll Put at 35,000

An unidentified Pakistani journalist from Dacca who crossed the border to the Indian town of Agartalla, 50 miles to the east, estimated that at least 35,000 people were killed in the provincial capital after the army moved in last week.

He said that Sheik Mujib left his home shortly before the army moved and that he believed that Sheik Mujib's son, Sheik Kamal, had been killed. He also asserted that 25 reporters had been shot for defying the curfew in Dacca Fri day.

When I left Dacca charred bodies were lying everywhere,” he said.

The Dacca radio came on the air again today but the signal was weak, which would seem to indicate that the original transmitter was out of operation. It broadcast Bengali nationalist songs.