A similar conclusion was reached last week by a team from the World Bank, which co-ordinates an eleven-nation consortium that supplies about $ 500 million a year in aid to Pakistan. After touring the devastated Eastern region, the team recommended that aid be with held in an effort to force Yahya to seek a political solution to the strife. The only opposition came from U.S., which announced that it would continue its aid to Islamabad in order or maintain its influence with Yahya, and presumably to enhance the possibility of persuading him to move toward peace. The fallacy in such thinking” of course, is that neither side in the conflict has shown any inclination to negotiate. Indeed it may well be. as one diplomat in Dacca noted last week, that there can be no reconciliation. “Pakistan died the day the army entered in the Eastern Region."
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