WASHINGTON, April 2—The State Department announced today that Pakistan had offered several civilian airliners to evacuate some 700 American citizens from Dacca, East Pakistan.

Robert J. McCloskey, State Department spokesman, said that the Pakistani offer would obviate the need for United States military aircraft, as previously planned, and would be accepted “with appreciation.”

Mr. McCloskey added that the Boeing 707 airliners, drawn from the Pakistan International Airlines fleet, would begin air lifting Americans from Dacca to Karachi, West Pakistan, on Sunday at the rate of two flights a day.

Meanwhile, it was learned that a British Royal Air Force transport had been granted permission to land today at Dacca and had evacuated 102 persons to Singapore.

East Pakistan has been torn by civil strife since last week when the army struck against the movement to gain independence for East Pakistan, separated from West Pakistan by 1,000 miles of Indian territory.

Food Shortages Reported

Meanwhile, cabled reports reaching here have spoken of growing food shortages that appear to threaten not only the local population but also the foreigners awaiting evacuation.

The United States plans to remove all but 20 to 40 officials of the 750‐member American community.

However, access to the Americans and the ability to round them up and transport them to centers near airfields depend on the cooperation of the Pakistani Army, which is enforcing martial law through out the area.

The State Department said today that the United States would give sympathetic consideration to any international humanitarian efforts to assist the East Pakistani people.

Citing a statement to this effect issued yesterday by Secretary General Thant of the United Nations, Mr. McCloskey stressed that such an effort would first have to he re quested by the Pakistani Government and would also have to be “in line with” Mr. Thant's own pronouncement.

Secretary of State William P. Rogers was said to feel that no vital United States interests were involved in Pakistan. He was reported to believe that, while deploring suffering caused by civil strife and agreeing to help alleviate it, the United States must resist being drawn politically into the situation, which it considers “an internal Pakistan matter.”