পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৮০

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448 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড Under the auspices of the Indian Army, two close associates of Sheikh Mujib, Syed Nazrul Islam and Tazuddin Ahmed, were due to be installed in Jessore on Saturday afternoon as respectively. President and Prime Minister of the Republic of Bangladesh. The Pakistani prisoners of war will be sent home quickly, though not out of any market feelings of charity ("Why should we feed those bastards 2" one senior Indian official asked Carroll) India will then withdraw her troops. China; the Indians suppose, will go on making the threatening noises which in the Indian view are a consolatory substitute for military assistance to Pakistan. And the United States will have to swallow its disapproval and learn to live with the kind of fait accompli which Israel achieved. In the long run, the shattering disaster to the prestige of Pakistan's armed services in the East must shake the prestige of the military men who dominate West Pakistani. But on the ninth day of general war the military conflict seemed far from over. The Pakistani Army still had reserves, and its commanders still had spirit. Indian strategists were guessing, and Pakistani officials were hinting, that Act IV might see a do-or-die offensive. But in the meantime the curtain was coming down on Act III. On Saturday, after a brief period during which "a very poorly heard transmitter announcing itself as Radio Pakistan, Dacca could still be picked up by the BBC's monitors, Radio Dacca finally faded away. The voice of Punjabi rule in Bengal had in any case, tong been drowned by the shouts of "Joi Bangla s.”