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News Headlines:
- Press reports grossly exaggerated PAK-
ARMY doing a great deal of good work, says British MP. (From Yehya Syed) - Gen. Hamid in City.
- Indians clearing 3-
miles border belt Tripura. - French, German envoys call on Governor.
- Quyyum opposes transfer of power.
- Four man British Parliamentary team leaves for Pakistan.
- Pak newsman's account of East wing events in Sunday times rebutted.
- Recent troubles 10 times stronger than Bengal's rebellion in 1857.'
- Keraniganj Thana Peace Committee.
- India has turned crazy : Nuruzzaman.
- Call to help Govt. in bringing normalcy in East Pakistan.
Other Headlines:
- 1,350 more DPs return.
- 50 returnees die of Cholera.
- Stand united to frustrate Indian design.
Press reports grossly exaggerated
Pak Army doing a great deal of good work says British MPs.
(From Yehia Syed)
London
Mrs. Jiill Knight, conservative MP for Edgbaston, who returned last night from East Pakistan described reports as "gross exaggerations" of situation there being published in British press.
"Papers in Britain", she said "are still reporting atrocities and shocking evidence of this going on now." Another member of the delegation James Tinn, MP for cleveland said "there is much misunderstanding by rest of world of the situation as it really is." He said "army are in fact carrying out a great deal of good work."
When questioned in Independent Television news why six million refugees as Indian claims have fled from East Pakistan. Mrs. Knight said, "I am not sure if that many people have really left East Pakistan."
PROMISE
In a signed article published in Daily Telegraph today, she repeated her statement made over it last night that President Yahya Khan has promised her that any army personnel caught killing citizens with no reason looting or any other crimes of this kind would be court marshalled.
Mrs. Knight said in her article that British tea plants, engineers, businessmen, shipping agents, doctors and bankers who lived for many years in Pakistan told her that president "had been completely right in actions he took on March 25th and subsequently."
In Sylhet and Chittagong, she said British were absolutely firm that only lives. "They were quick to give both statements and proof butchering of untold thousands by before army came on scene to try stop it. I have no doubt it was army's discovery of that ghastly carnage which set off fuse" Mrs. Knight said.
General Abdul Hamid Khan, Chief of staff Pakistan Army, arrived in Dacca yesterday afternoon, reports APP.
He was received at the airport by Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan, Governor East Pakistan and
Martial Law Administrator Zone B, Lt-
During his stay, Gen. Hamid will visit troops and military installations in East Pakistan.
Indians have started clearing the three mile border belt in Tripura state, reports reaching here yesterday, reports APP.
The Ambassador of France in Pakistan Mr. Michel Legendre now on visit to East Pakistan Governor Lt. General Tikka Khan on Sunday night, and discussed matters of mutual interest reports APP.
The Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany to Pakistan, Mr. Norbert Berger also called on the Governor of East Pakistan.
Khan Abdul Quyyum Khan, President of the Pakistan Muslim League yesterday reiterated that his party was opposed to the India of transfer of power at the moment because it would mean having one kind of system in the West Wing and another in the East Wing.
He was talking to newsmen at the Lahore Airport on his arrival from Peshawar on a four day visit which takes him on a tour of four districts in the Punjub to meet workers of his party.
He said President Yahya Khan was to unfold his plan on June 28. So the people should wait for it.
Whatever the scheme, he asserted it should be simulteous for both wings of the country.
As regars the timing and the manner of putting the scheme into practice the president was the judge because he has fully seized of ill facts and conditions obtaining in the country he added.
An official British parliamentary delegation flew out to Pakistan today to study the refugee situation at first hand.
The four man mission which is being sponsored and paid for by the British parliament, will visit India as well as Pakistan in the course of a 10 day visit.
Delegates heft less than 24 hours after the return to London of three other parliamentarians who spent eight days in Pakistan at the invitation of the Pakistan Government, This visit was not under parliamentary auspices.
The delegation which left here today comprised two former Labour Government Ministers. Mr. Arthur Bottomley and Mr. Reginald Prentice, Mr. James Ransden,
Former conservative secretery of state for war and Mr. to by Essel, a conservative MP.
Delegates were flying to Islamabad, by way of Geneva. They will spend two days in Islamabad and the same time in East Pakistan before going on by way of Bangkok to spend similar two day periods in Calcutta and New Delhi.
APP adds from Karachi: A four member official British Parliamentary delegation is arriving here tomorrow morning to make an on the spot study of conditions in East Pakistan.
After a brief stay in Karachi the mission is scheduled to fly to Islamabad in the afternoon where they will meet president Yahya Khan and senior officials.
An official spokesman yesterday described Mr. Anthony Mascarenhas, accounts of events in East Pakistan, as appeared in the Sunday Times of London on June 13, as "neither full, nor authorative nor first hand."
In a point rebuttal the spokesman said that the despatch by Mascarenhas, a former Assistant of Morning News (Karachi), was based marely on hear say evidence collected second hand in a limited area in and around Comilla and Dacca.
The spokesman pointed out that foreign pressmen who had unfettered access to all the parts of East Pakistan in fact sent their dispatch much before Mascarenhas did. These dispatches are significantly at variance with those of Mascarenhas.
The spokesman pointed out Mascarenhas' article in the Sunday Times of June 13 does not retract his earlier despatch of May 2 filed from Dacca, which proves that the first despatch was neither writer under deeress nor was it factually in correct.
He admits in the latest article that first massacres were of non Bengalis in a savage
out burst of Bengali hatred and he puts death figures of non-
Mascarenhas admits that 176,000 Bengali militarymen and police multinied on March 26 in a bid to create independent Bangladesh and that the Pakistan Army had to put down the mutiny.
He is supporting our case that army action was directed against armed rebels seeking secession by force and that the army action was not directed against unarmed civilians or Hindus or Muslims Bengalis as such. It was directed against a small minarity of those Hindus and Muslims who took up arms to secede.
The spokesman continued that Mascarenhas admits that on the night of March 25 Bengali
rebel troops and paramilitary units mutinied and "attacked non-
Incidents quoted by Mascarenhas as evidence of genocide are not eye witness accounts
but just hear say. The only eye-
Mascahas deliberately misconstrues General Tika Khan's reference to a small violent minority as a reference to Hindus where as it obviously refers to the militant group of secessionists whether Hindu or Muslim.
Mascarenhas alleges that the Government is reluctant to allow external inspection of relief distribution for fear of exposure of the alleged programme where as the fact is that the Pakistan Government has already agreed to United Nations relief officials being stationed in East Pakistan and to the visits of foreign correspondents and parliamentarians.
The East Pakistan Jamaat-
Addressing the workers of the Jamaat at its Fatima Jinnah Road office here yesterday, he said there was no alternative to save the country from disintegration but an army action.
He said the recent disturbance in East Pakistan by the outlawed Awami League was ten time stronger than the Bengali's rebellion in 1857.
He said the first slogan for the "independent Bangladesh" was raised on September 17,1969 in the Dacca University campus by six students. They were later asked to appear before a military court but they did not. Later Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a telegram appealed to president Yahya for withdrawing cases against them.
In October president Yahya Khan Personally visited Dacca and announced general amnesty for the students.
The Thana Peace Committee of Keraniganj P.S. has been formed with 59 members who expressed their firm determination to maintain the integrity and ideology of Pakistan and to help the Government to maintain law and order and also to defend against the anti Pakistani elements including the social evils, reports PPI.
The Committee in a resolution expressed deep appreciation of the heroic deeds of the Pakistan armed forces for saving the country from ruination.
The committee in a resolution severely condemned the Indian propaganda and the mischievous activities against Pakistan.
Dr. Joynal Abedin, convener of the Thana Peace Committee said that in case India declares war, it will be for their own doom as our people are united ;and ready to give them a good lesson once for all. He also said that the people of this Thana area has understood as to how the outlawed Awami League leaders conspired to break one Pakistan and to bring the people of East Pakistan under Indian Chain.
The Peace Committee members pledged their firm faith in the strength of Pak Army to defeat any enemy of Pakistan as Pakistan has come to stay.
Maulana Nuruzzaman, Secretary General, Pakistan Peace and Welfare Council said that "India has turned crazy against a people of faith and India should in her own interest take lessons from past history of crazy people or Pakistan shall, if need be not hesitate to teach her the lessons once again," reports APP.
Addressing a meeting of the Islampur unit of the Peace Council here on Sunday the Maulana said "We achieve Pakistan on the pledge to convert it into a laboratory of applied Islam and today, under the heavy pressure of the enemies of Islam and today, under the heavy pressure of the enemies of Islam from outside our borders, we got one more opportunity to search our heart and reconsolidate our ranks and fiels to rebuild the nation with only one identity of Muslim as opposed to all other Unislami trends or parochialism and regionalism and stand like against our enemies."
Begum Akhtar, daughter of late hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy has called upon the people to strengthen the hands of Government in bringing normalcy in East Pakistan. She was taking to PPI at the Islamabad international airport before her departure for Lahore this morning.
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