পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৩৮

506 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড make an accurate assessment of the activities of the guerrilla movement because the authorities are anxious that these should be played down. However the fact that these reports have come out under the present circumstances where there are DO official sources and when not many people are travelling the countryside would tend to indicate that at least sporadic acts of violence aimed at disrupting the economy and preventing people from collaborating with the government are likely to continue. ૨૦ | ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS BRITISH PRESS ON PAKISTAN 9th July, 1971 Edited by William Crawley (S) In this morning's Daily Telegraph Clare Hollingworth reports from East Pakistan. She says that Pakistani and Indian soldiers confront each other at close quarters at every main said crossing along the border and that there is daily sporadic small arms fire across the border, Bangladesh guerrillas cross the frontier every night and have been damaging communications in the border areas. The Indian side is packed with refugees she says, while the Pakistani army operates in almost deserted countryside. Few refugees are returning into Pakistan. Clare Hollingworth thinks that the presence of a United Nations peace keeping force would be the best solution in view of what she says are the ever rising tempers of the battalion and company commanders. Another Telegraph reporter, Peter Gill reports from the Indian state of Tripura. He says that there are fresh waves of East Pakistan refugees crossing into India. He says they are mostly Muslim Bengali peasants who have been caught in cross fire in fighting between Pakistani forces and the Mukti Foujguerrillas. In the Financial Times, Neville Maxwell reporting from Karachi also notes West Pakistani anger at Britain. He sees irony in the allegation in Pakistan that Britons have always favored the Hindus against the Muslims, as he says exactly the opposite accusation is regularly made in India. The Pakistan Government, he says is engaged in a fundamental reappraisal of its relationship with Britain. (He says that foreign reporting of the situation in East Pakistan is either ignored or discounted both by West Pakistanis and by British people living in West Pakistan). Maxwell says that the views of such West Pakistanis as Air Marshal Asghar Khan, who has just returned from East Pakistan are ignored. According to Maxwell, Air Marshal Asghar Khan's appreciation of the situation is sharply different from that of the Pakistan Government. રેS ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS PAKISTAN ARMY AND THE MUKTI FAUJ 23rd July 1971 by Mark Tully (S) Reports of sabotage by the Mukti Faujin East Pakistan continue. Mark Tully looks at the situation now facing the Pakistan Army in