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11 | বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৫২। নিষেধাজ্ঞা সত্ত্বেও নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস ২২ জুন, ১৯৭১ পাকিস্তানে মার্কিন অস্ত্র প্রেরণ THE NEW YORK TIMES, JUNE 22, 1971. U. S. MILITARY GOODS SENT TO PAKISTAN DESPETE BAN By Tad Szulc Special to the New York Times Washington, June 21- A freighter flying the flag of Pakistan was preparing today to sail from New York for Karachi with a cargo of United States military equipment for Pakistan, apparently in violation of the Administration's officially proclaimed ban on such shipments. Senior State Department officials, in response to inquiries, acknowledged that at least one other ship was now on the way from the United States to Pakistan carrying what they described as "foreign military sales" items. These items, they indicated, came from Defense Department excess stocks and apparently were shipped as a result of confusion within the Administration as to how the three month-old ban on shipments of military equipment to Pakistan should be applied. "There has evidently been some kind of slippage here," an official said. To Karachi In August The Padma, the ship that was preparing to sail from New York, is scheduled to arrive in Karachi'in mid-August with eight aircraft, parachutes and a cargo that is said to include hundreds of thousands of pounds of spare parts and accessories for planes and military vehicles. The Sunderbans, another ship of Pakistani registry, sailed from New York on May 8 with other items of military equipment for Pakistan, including parts for armed personnel carriers, according to the ship's manifesto and the accompanying State Department export license. She is due in Karachi Wednesday. All this equipment has been sold to Pakistan by the United States Air Force under provisions of the Foreign Military Sales Act. After troops of the Pakistani Army, mainly West Pakistanis were ordered to crush the self-rule movement in East Pakistan last March 25 the State Department announced that all sales of military equipment to Pakistan had been suspended and that the program, initiated in 1967 had been placed "under review." Today, State Department officials, responding to queries about the sailings of the Padma and the Sunder bans, said that it remained the official policy of the Administration that sales of all types of military equipment to Pakistan were banned,