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    "ocrText": "SECRET\n24\nentered Pakistan from India. Pakistan was thus in a better position to\nsettle its refugee situation than was India, which not only had to\nallocate larger sums for refugee settlement, but many of the refugees\non the Indian side are still inadequately housed.\nAt the end of 1948 and in early 1949 Pakistan and India made pre-\nliminary moves toward the exchange and restitution of these abandoned\nproperties. A pact was signed recognizing that the refugees had not\nforfeited their right to property left behind, and the two countries\nagreed to (1) the private exchange or sale of immoveable urban property;\n(2) the collection and remission of rents on rural and urban property\npending ultimate settlement, and (3) the exchange of land records as a\npreliminary to a more detailed agreement on agricultural property.\nSince the first detailed estimates of the value of the respective\nproperties became available (evacuee property in Pakistan is valued at\nabout three times that which it is in India) Pakistan officials appear\nto have been reluctant to proceed.\nAt the end of 1949 when the Indian Prime Minister suggested that\nthe two countries make a concerted effort to solve the three major dis-\nputes outstanding between the two countries Pakistan answered that inas-\nmuch as the value of evacuee property partly depended on the supply of\ncanal water the dispute over water rights would have to be settled before\nthe evacuee property question could be taken up. This response has\nstrengthened Indian fears that Pakistan might, if a settlement of the\nwater rights dispute were reached, refuse to follow through on the\npreperty question, particularly as a strict accounting based on property\nvalues might require an enormous payment to India by Pakistan. The\nSECRET"
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