§ 95. Mr. Robert Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will now make a statement on the fate of Mr. Philip Chalmers, a British citizen missing in East Pakistan since 24th June, and on the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.
§ Mr. Anthony RoyleMr. Chalmers was kidnapped from the Luskerpore Valley area of East Pakistan on 2nd June and is still missing. Since my right hon. Friend told the House on 23rd June that we had been unable to obtain any definite news of Mr. Chalmers, British representatives in Pakistan and India have continued to make inquiries from official and unofficial sources about his whereabouts, but I regret to say that we still have no firm evidence about his fate. It is obvious116W that the grave fears for Mr. Chalmers' safety, which my right hon. Friend mentioned on 23rd June, must grow with every day that passess without news of him.—[Vol. 819, c. 1436–1443.]