A number of Jewish families have crossed the border into India from Pakistan, it was reported here today. A dispatch from Karachi, Pakistani capital, stated that the Arab state’s Parliamentary Committee on Aid to Palestine decided to raise a fully-trained, well-equipped volunteer corps to fight with the Arabs against the Israelis.
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