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509 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড publication of this White Paper for over four months for fear of reprisals in the west wing. The change of Indian collusion is taken back to the Agartala conspiracy case. It implies that the Pakistan government knew in 1967 that Sheikh Mujib was conspiring with India to divide Pakistan and that the plan which was revealed then was actually put into effect in February 1971 with the hijacking of the Indian aero plane. Most of the evidence produced in the report must have been known to the government at the time. If they believed this evidence proved that Sheikh Mujib was planning to commit treason with the help of India why, as is made out elsewhere in the report, did the president continue his negotiations in good faith with the Awami League? why indeed did the President describe Sheikh Mujib as the future Prime Minister of Pakistan? But perhaps the most important criticism of the report is that it is not what is needed now. In the introduction it says that the White Paper h a full account of the events which led to the present crisis in East Pakistan. But nowhere in the report does the Government discuss what is being done about the crisis now or what its hopes and expectations for the future are. This is what the world wants to hear. ২৩ ৷ ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS BOIL OF GUARDIAN ARTICLE BY 15th September, 1971 MARTIN WOOLLACOTT Edited by William Crawley (S) RefNo. 70J218 In the Guardian this morning Martin Woollacott writes from Calcutta about the different aims and ideologies of those who are involved in the struggle for Bangladesh. Woollacott says that some of those in the movement consider it a blessing in disguise that India does not intend to go to war over Bangladesh, as the prospect of being a client state of India does not appeal to them. According to Martin Woollacott, the leadership of the Bangladesh movement can he divided into four categories. The first is the Awami League leadership, which he says without Sheikh Mujibur' Rahman is not a particularly dynamic body but has the unique advantage of legitimacy. Secondly, there is a small corps of former regular Pakistani army officers. Thirdly, there is a group of young men of education and intelligence, without party affiliations, who have secured jobs as private secretaries and policy planners. Woollacott thinks that their influence can be expected to grow. Finally there is the leadership of the various left wing and Communist parties, especially the Bhashani and Muzaffar groups of the National Awami Party, and the Communist Party of Bangladesh. They have been linked with the Awami League by the creation this week of a formal consultative committee. These parties favor a true liberation war, and are in tacit alliance with the young intellectuals who work for the Awami League Government, according to Martin Woollacott.