The Daily
Morning News
10 MAY 1971
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- Mujib had planned bloodshed— Mr. C. Rajgopal.
- Army secures entire area from Cox's Bazar to Teknaf.
- Indian wireless set seized in Khulna.
- Gen. Niazi visits troops in Sylhet.
Gen. Hamid back in Pindi
(APP)
Rawalpindi, May 9 (APP): General Abdul Hamid Khan, chief of staff, Pakistan Army, returned here yesterday afternoon after a 12 day visit to East Pakistan.
During his stay in East Pakistan, General Hamid extensively toured the province and met the troops.
"Bangla Desh" guerillas : training camps
Calcutta, May 9 (APP): Training camps for Bangladesh guerillas are being set up in at least two Indian border states.
At Bangla Desh headquarter" in a school near an Indian border town of Karimganj, a local "Bangla Desh" leader said there was a training camp somewhere in Assam. Four hundred persons were under training at the camp. He reported there were other camps in the Indian state of Tripura further south.
The Indian Government has persistently refused to allow foreign newsmen to visit Tripura and several have been ordered to leave when they arrived without entry permits from New Delhi.
Considerable Indian military traffic has been spotted on roads leading to Tripura a state jutting into East Pakistan like a beak.
At the narrowest point, only 12 miles of Pakistan territory separates Tripura from the Bay of Bengal. Through this narrow strip run all rail and road communication between Dacca, the provincial capital and Chittagong, East Pakistan's main port.
India still plans to recognise "Bangla Desh Govt"
(Reuter)
New Delhi, May 9 (Reuter): India is still considering recognising the provisional Government of Bangla Desh, in East Pakistan, informed sources said on Friday.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told a meeting of opposition party leaders here. She was in touch with all friendly countries on this question, the sources said.
They quoted her as saying it was not fear of attack from Pakistan or China which held India back from recognising the secessionists Government but several other implications of such a move.
Political observers feel Mrs. Gandhi is afraid that recognition of Bangla Desh might encourage separatist tendencies inside India itself.
The meeting called by Mrs. Gandhi was attended by leaders of all opposition parties
except the business-
Informed sources said politicians cautioned the Government against taking a hasty decision on the recognition issue, but most wanted quick recognition.
On the problem of East Pakistanis in India, Mrs. Gandhi said all those who had come over would have to go back when the situation returned to normal in their country.
For that reason she was not prepared to call them refugees but only evacuees, the sources said. They said Mrs. Gandhi charged Pakistan with trying to spread lies about India and fomenting communal trouble. The Government had issued an internal security ordinance to deal with spies sent in by Pakistan.
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