The Daily
Morning News
11 DECEMBER 1971
News headlines and details from the Daily Morning News.
News Headlines:
- IAF continues raiding civilian targets. 1,000 pounders dropped on busy road in city.
- Kushtia Peace body discusses future programme.
- Bombing of civilian targets : Red cross attention drawn.
Other Headlines:
- Indian forces in East Wing suffer significant losses.
- One MIG-
21 destroyed, 2 damaged. - Pakistan accepts UN cease fire and troops pull-
ut call. - UN calls off air flights to Dacca.
- Indian Govt. considering UN resolution.
- PAF permits evacuation of foreigners.
- 160 IAF planes destroyed during first day's raid.
- Moscow Radio.
- IAF losses 120 planes.
- Mahmud Ali meets President.
- Another raid on Karachi repulsed.
- Amin urges people to teach enemy a lesson.
- Victory predicted.
- Niazi appears at Intercontinental.
- Inhuman Behaviour. (editorial)
- Chi-
Peng- Fei warns Delhi. India must with draw its aggressor troops. - Civilian areas in Sialkot bombed by. IAF planes.
- Relief Under War Injuries. Ordinance.
- Pak Hindu community condemns Indian aggression.
- This is an unclean war : Munibjee.
- Over 1000 young girls registered as Razakars.
- UK protests against Indian attack on freighter at Karachi.
- Nurul Amin shifts to Governor suite.
- Use of napalm bomb condemned.
- Prue urges people to take measures to check miscreants.
- Indian plot to annext Fast Wing exposed.
- Jardanians pledge full support.
- Kaal flying to New York.
- Vatican accuse India.
- Concern expressed in US congress on India's jingoism.
- D. I. Khan prisoners offer to fight against India.
- 5 PC. of salary donated to Defence fund.
- Faiz offers services during emergency.
- 20 killed in Indian plane crash.
- Soviet persons reportedly manning missile boats and flhing planes in India.
- Indians behaving like conquerors.
- Indians are damn liars, says Iranian Press photographer.
- India wants to dominate Indian Ocean : Ziauddin.
- Nation prepared in response to call for Jehad.
- Azam Khan meets Amin, Mahmud Ali.
- Maintain food supply at all costs : Nawazish.
- Indian aggression condemned in Morocco.
- Gallant resistance by Armed Forces praised.
- Peking's serious warring to India.
- Sitting of supreme Court Order issued.
- UK working for peaceful solution to Indo-
Pak crisis.
The Indian warplanes are persisting in their wanton attacks on civilian populations and like Wednesday might they again threw 1000 pounders over non military area in Dacca, reports APP.
On Thursday night they dropped five 1000 pounders in a locality targets. This time it was a busy road linking the city with the airport. The bombs fell near on abandoned `Kabab' shop not very far from the discarded railway crossing, hardly three furlongs from the International Hotel which has been declared by the International Red cross at Geneva as a "neutral Zone" since Thursday.
Luckily only two of the five bombes exploded in an open space where there is no habitation nearby, and past midnight when here was no traffic on the road either. They left deep pits. The other three which could not explode lay throughout the day by the road side with traffic passing by them.
Marking on the bombs have not beer decorded but there unconfirmed reports that these were Soviet made.
Kushtia, Dec. 10 (APP) : Meeting of the District Peace Committee was held here recently in the meeting hall of the District Peace Committee.
Mr. Saad Ahmed, MNA-
The meeting expressed satisfaction at the success achieved by the District Peace Committee and discussed the future programme of organising the Santisena and village defence parties for maintaining peace, checking the activities of the miscreants and rebels.
The meeting also decided to hold meeting at every nook and corner of the district
by the members of the sub-
The Deputy Commissioner also attended the meeting and participated in (lie deliberations which was concluded with a munajat for the integrity and solidarity of Pakistan.
Islambad : Dec. 10 (APP) : In cables sent separately to the President, International Committee of Red cross and the President, league of International societies, Geneva,
Pakistan's Foreign Secretary has drawn their attention to the heinous acts being committed by the Indian Air Force by indulging in indiscriminate bombing and strafing of civilian population causing serious loss of life and widespread damage to public and private property.
Following is the text of the Foreign Secretary's cable :
I would like to draw your immediate attention to the fact that Indian aircraft over the past several days have indulged in indiscriminate bombing and strafing of civilian targets, causing serious loss of life and injuries to civilians as well as widespread damage to public and private property.
Among the series of heinous acts committed by the Indian Air Force agent the civilian population are the following :
1) Bombing the central Government Hospital in Rawalpindi causing widespread damage and distress to the patients December 7th at 1 1 p. M.
2) Use of napalm in raids on the civilian airport of Dacca, Causing heavy loss of
life and injury Dec. 7th).
3) Attacks on various residential areas in Karachi killing 201 persons on December 7th alone, including a large number of women and children.
4) Starfing of city roads in Karachi and Rawalpindi which have in normal times
a heavy concentration of people.
5) Dropping of time bombs in residential areas which have caused death of
several unsuspecting civilians.
6) Strafing of passenger trains at several railway stations killing many passengers and wounding several others. As a result of there deliberate acts the total toll of civilian dead and wounded including women and children in the last two days has amounted to at least 305 dead and over 451 injured.
I am constrained on behalf of the Government of Pakistan to lodge the strongest possible protest against these criminal and premeditated acts which violate all norms of international law and which militates in particular against the Geneva convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war of August 12, 1949, and to request Your Excellency to take all steeps within the limits of your statuary jurisdiction to prevent the further infraction of these laves by senseless and deliberate acts of violence against the civilian population.
I may mention that the Government of Pakistan has acted with complete restraint and imposed operational restrictions at the cost of reduced effectiveness in order to avoid needless damage of civilians.
Since the time periods convered in the telegram, the Indian Air Force has considerably steped its illegal and criminal acts directed against the civilian population including deliberate bombing and strafing of a jute mill in Admamjee Nagar (East Pakistan) which killed 500 people on December 8, 1971.
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