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23 AUGUST 1971
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- White paper on East Pak crisis.
Islamabad, Aug. 22 (APP): Mr. R.P. Kapur, a retired ICS officer and the chairman
of public affairs had said that India's support to Sheikh Mujib is based on its "Sub-
Reviewing the recent developments in East Pakistan, Mr. Kapur recalls that the two nation theory has never been palatable" to India and "if some thing ever happens which proves the unsoundness of that theory, it will be a matter of psychological satisfaction to us (Indians)."
Referrng to the Indian attitude to "Bangla Desh," Mr. Kapur says "As a nation, we lost our head over Bangla Desh or it would be more correct to say that we were made to lose our head."
"The All India Radio and the press voiced or published all manners of in accurate or grabled versions of happenings or imaginative fantasies in East Pakistan and conjured up a vision and a saga of Bangla Desh."
Advising his countrymen "to diagnose issues less sentimentally and soberly". Mr. Kapur points out, "Bangla Desh may well disrupt West Bengal and that has already started happening before our eyes, West Bengal is slipping from our fold though Bangla Desh is still born."
Posing a question how would we "Indians like another Mujib in our midst," Mr. Kapur says, "would we feel nationally happy if an Indian Mujibur told us to wind up the shop of the Central Government and ask it to be content with foreign affairs and defence and that, too, to be financed by greats from provinces."
"The basic issue is," adds Mr. Kapur, "was it our internal affairs when we jumped into the Pakistani fray which was really a civil war and what were the considerations motivating us which took us to the plunge. We are today sore about American, which has had a civil war and it knows the pros and cons of federalism versus state rights."
The Government of East Pakistan has issued an ordinance providing for the constitution of a voluntary force in the province known as Razakars.
The ordinance known as "the East Pakistan Razakars ordinance, 1971," repeals the Ansars Act, 1948 and all properties, movable and immovable, funds liabilities and records of the Ansars organisation shall on the commencement of this ordinance stand transferred to and vested in Razakars organisation.
The persons recruited as Razakars shall be trained and equipped in such manner as may be determined by the provincial Government and Razakars shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be prescribed.
The provincial Government, as laid down in the ordinance, maybe notification in the official gazette order, the embodiment into the provincial police force of all Razakars or such number of them as it may determined for a specified period which may be extended from time to time. when so embodied, they shall be subject to the police Act 1861.
The administration of the Razakars shall under the general control and direct of the provincial Government, be vested in the Director.
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