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News Headlines:
- Dr. Kissinger calls on Yahya, holds talks with officials.
- Indian urges total ban on US arms supply to Pakistan.
- Gen. Niazi inspects N-
E border : Troops deployed to check attacks and infiltration. - Two E. Pak versity professors deny atrocity stories.
- Begum Sulaiman says President's plan will satisfy E. Pakistanis.
- German MPs plea to apprise world to East Pak situation.
- German MPs off to Karachi.
- PPP to take part E.Pak bye-
elections. - No Interference.
- New Zealand help for DPs.
- Appeal to MNAs, MPAs.
- Matin Hashmi appreciates Yahya's speech.
- President Yahya congratulated.
- Nurruzaman slates BBC and British Parliamentarians.
Other Headlines:
- Call to show mercy to CPT. employees.
- Govt. Urged to quit C'wealth.
Rawalpindi, (APP)
Dr. Henry A. Kissingr, president Nixon's assistant for National Security Affairs, called on the president Gen. Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, at the president's House here this evening.
The meeting between the two lasted about an hour and a half later, Dr. Kissinger had dinner with the President.
The Economic Adviser to Pakistan president, Mr. M.M. Ahmed and the Foreign secretary,
Mr. Sultan Mohammad Khan today had 60 minute talks with the US president's Adviser
on national security, Dr. Henry Kisinger, which are understood to have centred on
the situation in the sub-
The senior Pakistani officials called on the US presidential Adviser this afternoon at the president's Guest House, Rwalpindi, where he is staying. Pakistan's Ambassador to the United states, Mr. Agha Hillay and the American Envoy here, Josephs. Farland were present at the talks.
Dr. Kissingr arrived here at noon today for a two-
It is learnt they discussed the steps taken by the Pakistan Government on her own as well as through international agencies for facilitating the return and rehabilitation of the Pakistani displaced persons in India.
President's appeal
Since May 21, President Yahya Khan has addressed four personal appeals to bonafide Pakistanis, crossed over to India during the recent disturbnces in East Pakistan, to return to their homes. The East Pakistan Governor, Lt. General Tikka Khan, followed up declaring general amnesty. Receptions centres have been set up along the border with India where arrangement exists of medical aid and transportation of the displaced persons to their homes. However, India is known to be obstructing the return of the displaced persons in order to exploit the refugee problems for her own political ends.
It is further learnt that the need for restoring the damage done to the East Pakistan economy came under review.
Economic life is gradually returning to normal in the Eastern Wing after the Pakistan
Army cleared the province of miscreants, rebels and anti-
S.E. Asia discussed
Besides, the situation in South-
The Presidential Adviser arrived here from New Delhi, where he had talks with the
Indian leaders, for a two-
Dr. Kissinger, as top foreign policy adviser to the US president, occupies an important position in the US administration. Observers here hoped that after his talks here he would be able to give a better appreciation of Pakistan's problems to president Nixon.
On arrival, Dr. Kissinger was received at the Islamabad airport by Mr. M.M. Ahmed, Mr. Sultan Mohammad Khan, Mr. Agha Hilaly, Mr. Joseph S. Farland and other officials.
Mr. Kisinger's special U.S. Air Force jet landed at the Airport at 12:05 P.M.
From the airport he drove straight to the president's Guest House where he is staying.
Dr. Kissinger had lunch after arrival with Amassador Farland and later conferred with Ambassador and members of his staff at the American Embassy in Islamabad.
Dr. Kissinger is accompanied by senior staff members of the National Security council of America including Mr. John Holdridge (East Asia): Mr. Harold Saunders (South Asia): Mr. W. Richard Smyser (South East Asia) and Mr. Winston Ford (Special Assistant to Dr. Kissinger).
Working Holiday
The US presidential Adviser, Dr. Henry Kissinger, will be spending the day tomorrow at Nathiagali where he will take rest, it was officially announced today.
It will, however, be a working holiday and senior officials, who were to meet him in Islamabad, will not be holding discussions with him at Nathiagali.
The officials include Economic adviser to the president, M. M. Ahmed and Adviser to the president for Food, Agriculture and Kashmir Affairs, Mr. M.H. Sufi.
New Delhi, (Reuter)
Th Indian Government yesterday told the United States that if it continued to supply arms to Pakistan, there could be no hope for a political settlement to the East Pakistan situation.
Official Indian sources said this made clear to Dr. Henry Kissinger, special Adviser to President Nixon, in talks he had today with the Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Swaran Singh.
The Supply of arms, even if of non-
Dr. Kissinger spent about 100 minutes with the Foreign Minister, and a further 45 minutes later with Mrs. Gandhi it was believed he brought a personal message from Mr. Nixon to the Prime Minister.
The sources said the entire time at both the meetings was taken up with East Pakistan issue, the first high level discussions between the two countries since it was disclosed last month that American arms shipments to Pakistan were continuing.
Dr. Kissinger was understood to have said that some bureaucratic mistakes had occurred and to have reiterated that all licences had been issued before the Pakistan Army began its crackdown in the East on March 25.
Dr. Kissinger was told that unless the world community, including the US, could ensure that all military and economic aid to Pakistan was stopped, a justified political settlement was ruled out, the sources said.
No Comment
Neither Dr. Kissinger nor American officials made any comment on the discussions.
According the Indian sources, Dr. Kissinger had come to obtain India's assessment of the present East Pakistan situation.
Observers said the talks came at difficult time in Indo-
The sources said the Indian minister hoped Dr. Kissinger would go away with a clear understanding of the depth of feeling in India about the East Pakistan situation and the influx of refugees into India.
They had left him in no doubt that president Yahya Khan's broadcast of June 28 could not be expected to form the basis of a political settlement.
The Indians, presumably expected that Dr. Kissinger would pass on their feelings not only to president Nixon but also to president Yahya and other Pakistani leaders, observers said.
The message conveyed to Dr. Kissinger, was that total ban on American arms supplies to Pakistan was essential.
If urgent steps were not taken the consequences for peace would be given Dr. Kissinger also had talks yesterday with the Indian defence Minister, Mr. Jagjvan Ram and the planning Minister, Mr. C. Subramaniam.
Lieut. General A.A.K. Niazi, commander, Eastern Command, inspected defensive deployment of troops along the northeastern border during his visit to Sylhet area yesterday.
He was accompanied by the GOC. The troops have been deployed in defence to check any possible in filtration or attack from across the border. The troops are in control of all the border out posts.
Gen. Niazi talked to the troops informally and inquired about their welfare. He found them in good shape.
The local commander, briefing Gen. Niazi, said that the entire Sylhet area had been
cleared of trouble makers with the active co-
From Sylhet, Gen. Niazi flew by helicopter to Jaintapur in the north where he visited the Reception Centre. He was told that about 7,000 displaced persons, including over 1200 people of minority community had returned from across the border mostly through unrecognised routes as India was blocking them on recognised routes.
Near the Reception Centre a large crowed at Darbastpur greeted the General by shouting
'Nara-
Later Gen. Niazi visited Sheolamukh ferry on Kushiara river and Srimangal area.
The local commander told Gen. Niazi at Srimangal that there was a physical threat to the tea gardens in the area. The miscreants were, however, trying to scare away the skilled labourers from the tea estate, he added. These miscreants usually came form the training camps set up by India along the border.
Gen. Niazi was also shown a sizable quantity of Indian explosives recovered from the border areas.
Gen. Niazi flew back to Dacca in the evening.
London (Reuter)
Two East Pakistan University professors yesterday denied suggestions that life was
not safe for Bengalis in the towns and villages of East Pakistan. The denial came
in a lengthy letter to the Times newspaper from Dr. S. Sajjad Hussain, Vice-
The letter referred to " atrocity stories circulating abroad" and said :"It is not surprising that such stories should continue to sustain the wholly baseless impression that life was not safe for any Bengali, particularly an educated Bengali, is the towns and villages of East Pakistan.
They also denied that there had been any massacre of intellectuals.
The letter continued, the number of teachers at Dacca University who are known to
have lost their lives in the fighting around Iqbal and Jagannath Halls on March 25-
Three colleagues of ours would not have died if armed members of the Awami League volunteer crop had not used the building in which they lived as the neighbourhood base for their operation against the army.
Rawalpindi (APP)
Begum Akhtar Sulaiman, daughter of the late Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, has said in London that president Yahya's consitutional plans will definitely satisfy the people of East Pakistan.
In an interview broadcast in the BBC's Urdu service yesterday, she said the president had time and again promised about the transfer of power to the people, and the MNAs of course would take over the power. "Now, it mostly depends on us. We need unity and discipline so that there could be one voice of the people."
Asked whether her recent visit to East Pakistan was meant to mobilise support of the National and provincial Assembly members of the Awami League for the goverment, she said it was not that she went there to obtain Support for the Government.
She said "In fact, I had received letters from many MNAs and MPAs asking me to come to East Pakistan as they needed my help. And that was why I decided to go to East Pakistan. They wanted to come out and work for the revival of the constitutional process, and told them to establish contacts with the Government in this regard. "I was very much successful in my efforts and many of the MNAs and MPAs have come out to work with us," she said.
Asked whether she was in London on a political mission, Begum Akhtar Sulaiman said she was on a private visit.
Karachi (PPI)
Dr. Rolf Meincke, a member of the ruling party in the West German parliament, has said that efforts should be made by the Pakistan Government to apprise the out side world of the correct situation in East Pakistan.
In an interview with (PPI), on his arrival from Dacca this afternoon, he said he had useful, informative discussions with the East Pakistan Governor Lt. General Tikka Khan, and other officials.
He said that the main purpose of his visit was to ascertain the quantity of humanitarian aid required for the displaced persons in the East Pakistan. The other member of the delegation, Wittgenstein of the opposition party, told PPI that since India was creating fear and tension displaced persons were not returning in large number. He said, "They were shown the damage caused by shelling from the Indian side at Benapole."
He said people in Dacca and Chittagong told him of the atrocities committed by the Awami Leaguers before the Army action.
Suitable arrangements
In reply to a question, he said the East Pakistan Government had made suitable arrangements at the reception camps for the displaced persons, returning from across the border.
Mr. Wittgenstein said the East wing Government had been very helpful to the delegation during its stay here. He said during his visit to the camps, he saw people going straight to their houses, and only a small number of them were seen at the camps.
Replying to another question, Mr. Wittgenstein said that the main problem in East Pakistan at the moment was of food and clothing. He said that on return they would tell parliament and the German Government the quantum of humanitarian aid required. The delegation might come here again to evaluate the situation, he added.
The delegation, it may be mentioned here, had earlier visited India.
The delegation was received at the airport by Mr. Victor Albert, the German consul General in Karachi. The delegation later left for Frankfurt after a brief stopover.
The two member German parliamentary delegation left Dacca yesterday morning for Karachi enroute to their own country on conclusion of its three day visit in the provinces, reports PPI.
The delegation which arrived in the city Monday from Karachi visited several Pakistani Reception Centres in the districts of Jessore and Chittagong during these days. These Reception Centres have been opened by the Government of Pakistan to receive back the bonafide Pakistanis from India.
Rawalpindi (APP)
Pakistan People's Party will participate in bye elections in East Pakistan if it was satisfied the polls will be fair and impartial, Maulana Kausar Niazi PPP's secretary information, said here today.
Addressing a press conference he said his party's programme for ending exploitation was for a particular province or region. There, he was sure the PPP would also gain popularity in the Eastern wing.
Maulana Kausar Niazi said four PPP delegations would soon tour East Pakistan party organization already existed in that wing and its offices were functioning there. The first delegation will leave for East Pakistan on August 1.
He said Mr. Zulfiker Ali Bhutto will also visit East Pakistan some time before the
bye-
Maulana Kausar Niazi disclosed he was leaving for Kabul tomorrow along with Mr. Hayat Mohammad Khan Sherpao NWFP chief of the party, on urgent summons by PPP chief, Mr. Bhutto.
The PPP chairman had telephoned him from Teheran where he is currently on a tour at the invitation of the Iranian government asking him to reach Kabul on July 10.
He said Mr. Bhutto and other party leaders will discuss in Kabul future course of action and matters relationg to the holding of the PPP central committee meeting in Rawalpindi on July 15.
The PPP chairman will also reach the capital on July 10. He will be in Peshawar on the evening of July 12 or the morning of July 13 and will leave for Rawalpindi on July 14, Besides presiding over the central committee meeting. Mr. Bhutto will call on president Yahya Khan during his stay in Rawalpindi.
Maulana Kausar Niazi said the important meeting of the central committee in Rawalpindi will, among other things, decide the party line regarding the president's plan for transfer of power. It will also discuss plans for strengthening party organization in East Pakistan.
At the end of Indian Foreign Minister Swaran Singh's official visit to Britain a
joint statement was issued, parts of which were certainly highly exceptionable. It
was broadly an endorsement of India's maliciously distarted view point and has acted
as an encouragement to those elements bent on creating trouble. The fears that the
joint statement gave rise to have proved correct. India has been sedulously propagating
for a political solution in East Pakistan based on an agreement with the defunct
Awami League and its discredited leaders. Indian leaders have time and again averred
that no other solution will be acceptable to India. What makes India arrogate to
herself the right to decide about Pakistan's internal affairs? How would India and
her friends feel if Pakistan were to insist that the Indian Government should come
to terms with 'rebels' in India? Then India would protest that this was an interference
in her internal affairs. She has prefected the art of doing wrong and yet being self-
The so-
India encouraged the secessionist "Bangladesh' movement. A "provisional Government'
of the so-
Welllington (Reuter)
New Zealand voluntary organizations are to ship some 50 cubic tons of blankets, clothing, food and medical supplies for relief of Pakistani displaced persons in India.
The shipment worth dollars 20,0000 will leave Tarunga in the vessel Streat Clarance.
It will be transhipped at Singapore and should arrive in Calcutta in mid-
The shipment was announced by the Material Aid officer of the Council of Organizations for Relief Services Overseas, Mr. Gordan Bryden yesterday.
Jilani Chandpuri, the founder member of the defunct All Pakistan Awami Muslim League and close associate and lieutenant of Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy yesterday appealed to all MNAs and MPAs to think over the president's recent broadcast seriously and deeply and come forward to play an active part in rebuilding the political structure of East Pakistan, reports PPI.
In a statement to the press he congratulated the president for his plan to frame a constitution on the basis of Islamic ideology for which Pakistan came into existence in 1947.
Saidpur (APP)
The convener, North Bengal Nezam-
Maulana further said, "Full normalcy restores when citizens of Pakistan feel safe," He also welcomed the stand of the president in respect of accepting foreign aid without any political string and assured him of the best support of his party.
Maulana Syed Mustafa Al-
He said president Yahya deserves heartfelt congratulation not only from Pakistani Muslim all over the world who are jubilant to hear this heartening news that after all Allah has given Pakistan a bold leader who not only has safeguarded the territorial integrity of Pakistan but has also ensured its ideological status.
Maulana Nuruzzaman, President, Pakistan Islamic Republic Party and acting president, Pakistan Peace and Welfare Council has reminded the Pakistanis to judge he nefarious propaganda of BBC and the malicious statements of some of the British parliamentarians, who visited East Pakistan recently, in the context of the British game in this country during the past century and during the early part of this century, reports APP, in Dacca.
In a statement he also referred to the parting kick of the British to the Muslim
of this sub-
He added if the few delegates of British parliament thought of the present situation in Pakistan an opportunity for India's friend like Mountbaten or his allies against Pakistan, they are to read their past history of failures wherever they went. The song of the rule Britania" is no more to be heard on eastern side of Suez Canal.
Maulana Nuruzzaman said, "Let the British Parliament take care of its own troublesome elements and keep good relation with the member of Commonwealth which Pakistan is still today or let Pakistan snap the thin tie of Commonwealth membership right now.
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