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COMMONWEA NI RELATIONS OFICE,
DONIW STREET.
23 JJune, 1949.
Dear Hunt,
1.
Flease refer to your letter $/55 of the 30th May, about the entry of Pakistanis into llong Kong. We agree that your Office does not come into the picture so far as screening is concerned and that this must be entirely the responsibility of the overment of Pakistan. we also agree that the Goverment of Fakistan can screen effectively through their C.I.D's and District folice and that at the moment there is no reason to think that they would not play straight. If anything happened in the future to make it necessary to think differently then presunbly the arrangements would have to be modified.
2.
As regards your suggestion in paragraph 5 that any request to the Fakistan Government should come from us, we feel that this sort of thing is better handled by our Office. We note that you have discussed the roposals informally with the inistry of Foreign Affairs and we should be grateful if you would use this channel if and when the Government of Hong Kong decide to go shoed. We are wondering however whether recent developments in China will affect the putting into force of the policy outlined in Hong Kong telegram 113 of 20th December, 1948.
3.
A point which will need to be borne in mind if the new arrangement comes into force is that rakistanis living outside Fakistan may occasionally apply for passport facilities for Hong Kong. Arrangements will have to be made for each application to be referred to the Government of Fakistan so that a really effective vetting will be possible. Representativas abroad are generally unable to know very much about ersons who may be moving about.
Yours sincerely,
R. C. C. Hunt, Esq.,
Office of the High Comissioner
for the United Kingdom,
KARACHI.
162.) F. H. CLEODERY,