KARACHI, Pakistan, April 29 —For two weeks or more, political figures have been holding small meetings and news conferences around West Pakistan, asking that the military Government turn over at least some power to the people and their elected representatives.

“Mobilizing the people through their elected representatives” was the slogan raised at a news conference in Lahore last Sunday by the vice chair man of the leftist Pakistan People's party, the dominant party of this western wing of the country.

The official, Mian Mahmud Ali Kasuri, made his appeal publicly without hindrance from the military Government, although all political activity was ordered curtailed following the army crackdown begun March 25 against dissidents in East Pakistan.

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There has been no public reply so far to the appeals that right‐wing as well as left‐wing politicians have been voicing for moves toward representative government.

The President, Gen. Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, and the other high officers who run this country under martial law have had their hands full with the situation in East Pakistan. But the President is widely expected to announce a decision in the next few weeks.

Parties of both the right and the left want a restoration of popular government because they have no effective power now and could only gain from a return to conventional political life.

In recent days officials of the Pakistan People's party and of lesser groups have been quietly seeking the support of former notables of the Awami League, the once‐dominant political party of East Pakistan, which was banned when the military action began.

League Won Majority

The league, campaigning on a platform of regional autonomy, had won a commanding majority‐167 of the 313 seats — in the National Assembly elected last December. The Pakistan People's party, although the dominant party of West Pakistan and urging what it described as an effective central government won only 88 seats.

On March 1, two days before the assembly had been scheduled to start drafting a constitution returning Pakistan to civilian rule, the President postponed it. Strikes broke out in East Pakistan, and Awami League leaders were arrested at the end of March in the first days of the military action.

So far, only one of the 167 Awami League representatives in the assembly has publicly renounced his ties to his party.

Both the Pakistan People's party and such right‐wing par ties as the Qayyum Muslim League are hopeful of obtaining support from former Awami Leaguers, but there is much doubt here of any substantial success in these efforts, especially with armed conflict continuing in the East.