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...While East Pakistan continues to suffer from the bloody civil war and the growing threat of food shortages, the other half of the divided country is bearing burdens of another sort. The army-backed federal government of President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan remains totally committed to keeping the Eastern wing from breaking away to establish Bangla Desh, an independent Bengal state. But the strain of the undertaking is overtaxing West Pakistan's resources and nerves. "This regime has East Pakistan stuck in its throat," says one American diplomat in the federal capital of Islamabad. "The army must either swallow...
...Pakistanis are bent on exterminating the last living Bengali. The history of the 23 years of Pakistani subjugation of Bangla Desh is clearly indicative of Pakistani attitudes toward Bengalis. The events of the past two months leave no doubts in our minds or the world's mind that Yahya Khan and his Pakistanis are willing to use every method of mass extermination in an effort to keep the Bengalis enslaved...
...flags hang limply in the steamy stillness. "We all know that Pakistan is finished," said one Bengali, "but we hope the flags will keep the soldiers away." As another form of insurance, portraits of Pakistan's late founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, and even the current President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, were displayed prominently. But there was no mistaking the fact that the East Pakistanis viewed the army's occupation of Dacca as a setback and not a surrender. "We will neither forgive nor forget," said one Bengali. On learning that I was a sangbadik (journalist), various townspeople...
...eight months in jail, he may have reasoned at the time of his arrest that his political goals would be served by the martyrdom of further imprisonment. But he obviously did not expect to face a treason charge and possible execution. Only two months earlier, after all, President Yahya had referred to him as "the next Prime Minister of Pakistan...
...message to President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan of Pakistan, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai said, "Should the Indian expansionists dare to launch aggression against Pakistan, the Chinese government and people will as always offer support to safeguard the state's integrity and national independence...