09 AUGUST 1971
News headlines and details from the Daily Morning News.
News Headlines:
- Pakistan demands full protection to HC staff.
- Colour TV documentary on AL atrocities.
- Decorations Act amended.
- AL betrayal responsible for people's misery.
Other Headlines:
- White paper on East Pak crisis.
Islamabad, Aug. 8: The Government of Pakistan has lodged strong protest with the Government of India against demonstrations held in front of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on August 7 by the Jana Sangh.
In a note handed over to the Acting Indian High Commissioner here this afternoon, the Government of Pakistan held the Government of India fully responsible for the safety of the personnel and inviolability of the premises of the Pakistan High Commission.
The Government of Pakistan further demanded that full protecting, facilities and amenities should be given to the personnel of the Pakistan High Commission in India in accordance with the international law and diplomatic practice.
Rawalpindi: Aug, *(APP): Pakistan Television has produced a -
It shows screaming men, women and children who lost their near and dear ones at the hands of the Awami league storm troopers. They told harrowing stories of the mass murders committed in the most brutal manner. The documentary tells full story of last election events and how the Awami League leadership disclaimed its mandate for provincial autonomy to secession.
It gives every details of the massacre which claimed more than one lakh lives. It spotlights blood stained apartments and smashed buildings of those who were vicitimised because they did not agree with the Awami league view point.
Islamabad. Aug. 8 (APP): The president and chief Martial Law Administrator last night issued an ordinance authorising the president to prescribe the conditions under which a decoration may be awarded, conferred, withdrawn, forfeited or annuled or May be restored after its withdrawal forfeiture or annulment.
The ordinance (No XVIII of 1971) called the Decorations (Amendment) ordinance, 1971, amends the decorations Act, 1965 and comes into force at once.
Under the Amending ordinance, the president may, by warrant, institute or create any decorating from time to time.
The ordinance also lays down that no decoration shall be awarded, conferred, withdrawn, forfeited or annulled, and no decoration which has been withdrawn forfeited or annulled shall be restored except with the personal approval of the president.
Another provision says that every award, conferment, withdrawal, forfeiture, annulment and restoration of a decoration shall be published in the official Gazette.
The ordinance forbids use of letters representing a decoration with the name of person to whom the decoration has not been conferred or whose decoration with drawn forfeited or annulled.
Kushtia Aug. 8(APP): Prof. Ghulam Azam Amir, Jamat-
This betrayal, he added, has brought untold miseries to the people of East Pakistan. He said that posterity would never forgive them.
Prof. Ghulam Azam was addressing a big public meeting held in the Kushtia public library compound under the auspices of the district peace committee yesterday afternoon.
Prof. Ghulam Azam said that it was most unfortunate and painful that the Awami Leaguers
so soon forget the history of thousand years of Indo-
Hindu Domination
He traced the history of the Muslim of Bengal and attributed their backwardness to
Hindu Bengalee's political, cultural and economic domination. He said that it was
only after Pakistan that they were able to get their full rights. But the hopes of
the people of East Pakistan were dashed to pieces by the treachery of Sheikh Mujib
and his pro-
He said that the Hindu Bengalees both within and outside the country could not tolerate the rise of Banglee Muslims. So they hatched a conspiracy with the blessing of Bharat which, he said never reconciled to the creation of Pakistan.
He thanked Allah and the valiant Jawans of Pakistan Army for their rising to the occasion and saving the country's integrity.
Prof. Ghulam Azam called upon the people to be vigilant against miscreants and render
continued help to the peace committees and the authorities for combating the anti-
The meeting was also addressed by two Jamaat leaders from West Pakistan, Dr. Nasir
Ahmed MNA-
They conveyed the good wishes of the people of West Pakistan to their brethren in East Pakistan and said that only the bond of Islam which created Pakistan could sustain the relation between the two wings. Mr. Saad Ahmed chairman District Peace Committee presided over the meeting and thanked the people for their help and urged them to be united till the enemy was crushed.
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