Shamsuddoza Sajen

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, returning from a three’week Western tour, said today that the military confrontation with Pakistan was becoming “less and less tolerable”.

A Tashkent-type conference is not possible to solve the crisis created by Pakistan. But no problem is unsolvable and that even at the last moment the world can make the Yahya regime see reason and bow to the wishes of Bangalees.

West German chancellor Willy Brandt today said a political solution of the East Pakistan problem must be found. Speaking at a

A nine-day national conference titled “Consultation on the American Response to events in East Pakistan” began today in Washington DC.

The leader of the Soviet parliamentary delegation in India, Kudrayavetsev, described the Bangladesh struggle as a “national liberation movement with elements of civil war in it”. He was speaking at the press club in New Delhi today.

Pakistan President Yahya Khan was today quoted as saying that China would intervene in the event of an Indian attack on Pakistan.

The United States decided to cancel licences for the export of more than $3-million worth of military equipment to Pakistan. The action would in effect shut the controversial arms pipeline that supplied Pakistan with spare parts and other military goods even though the Administration imposed an arms freeze in April, 1971.

China called on India and Pakistan today to find a peaceful solution to their frontier dispute, but warned that it would “resolutely support” Pakistan in the event of war.

More than 350 scholars signed a statement urging US president Richard Nixon to withdraw his country’s support for Pakistan until there was a peaceful settlement of the India-Pakistan crisis.

Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi called on US president Nixon today at the White House. The two-hour talk covered the Bangladesh issue in substantial detail.

The US President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger, in a memorandum sent today, informed President

The US ambassador in Pakistan, Joseph Farland, in a telegram sent today to the US State Department, informed that Pak

US Senator Edward M Kennedy urged the Nixon administration today to support efforts to bring the Bangladesh situation before the United Nations General Assembly in the interests of reaching a political solution.

The Bangladesh problem dominated the talks Indira Gandhi had with Heath today at the British prime minister’s country residence outside London.

US President Richard Nixon, in a letter sent today, appreciated Pakistan President Yahya Khan for his “prompt and positive” response to the US proposal for withdrawal of forces from the border with India.

In a report published today, The New York Times stated that Pakistan’s 29 reception centres for returning Bangladeshi refugees were clean, stocked with adequate food and medicine and well-staffed but the only thing they lacked was refugees.

The New York Times, in an editorial published today, stated, “The growing threat of war between India and Pakistan creates an urgent need for United Nations intervention -- but not on the terms proposed by Islamabad.”

A briefing dated October 27, 1971, prepared for US President Richard Nixon, concluded that the widespread famine with

The phrase “Bangalee Muslim” is generally regarded as a “living oxymoron,” and the Bangalee Muslims are considered to be perennially trapped in a dilemma of identity over their Bangaleeness and Muslimness.

Thirteen nations and five international organisations agreed in Paris today to a worldwide effort to meet the cost of the growing refugee problem in India.