পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/২৬৬

বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৯৮। পাকিস্তান ও ভারতের সৈন্য নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস ২০ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ মুখোমুখি NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 20, 1971 INDIA AND PAKISTAN ARMIES CONFRONT EACH OTHER ALONG BORDERS By Sydney H. Schanberg Special To The New York Times New Delhi, October 19- The armies of India and Pakistan now confronting each other among their borders. Most Western diplomats here are inclined to believe that, at least in West Pakistan, the Pakistani troops moved up first and that the Indians moved in response. According to high Indian sources, the build-up in West Pakistan began last month, and by last Thursday virtually all the infantry and armored divisions in West Pakistan were at or within striking distance of the border. Some border area canals have been flooded as barriers and Pakistani civilians have evacuated several border areas -some on orders from the army and others on their own, out of panic the sources say. Some of the heaviest troop concentration are reported to be at points where the Pakistanis crossed the Indian border in the three-week war over Kashmir in 1965. The border areas of East Pakistan, where it is believed there are four or five divisions have also reportedly been strengthened. The Indians are also said to have four or five divisions along their side of the border. President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan of Pakistan has charged that the Indians have eight divisions there. In addition, the Pakistani troops in Fast Pakistan also have to cope with the increasingly effective Bengali guerrillas of the independence movement, who are receiving arms, training and sanctuary in India. An estimated total of nine and a half million East Pakistani have fied to India since the Pakistan army moved in March and crush the Bengali separation movement. India is believed to have positioned 12 or 13 divisions on the border with West Pakistan about 1,000 miles from East Pakistan. Here in New Delhi, no war hysteria or panic is evident put some families are moving out of border towns have begun civil defense exercises including blackouts.