পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৫১

519 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড supply and an escape route for the Pakistan army. Housego says that observer in Rawalpindi do not see how President Yahya Khan can put off a decision much longer, whether to attack India in the west, or face disintegration of the eastern province, or to make political concessions. Writing in the Guardian from Dacca, Lee Lescaze of the Washington Post says that it is clear that fighting has been confined to small areas and no all-out India offensive has taken place. Lescaze says that both India and Pakistan are intent that its adversary should be painted as Jhe aggressor and says that this concern has shaped the undeclared border war. But Lescaze thinks that the Indian attacks have kept the Pakistani force off balance. He thinks that India would welcome counter thrusts across the border by Pakistani troops which could provide evidence of Pakistani aggression, and give a pretext for even stronger Indian military action. Also in today's Guardian there is an editorial headlined India provokes war. The Guardian says that Indian military incursions are calculated provocations aimed at securing either the Release of Sheikh Mujib and an autonomous Bangladesh or outright military victory. But the Guardian says that India's tactics look more and more fallible. They are disastrous diplomatically politically and psychologically. Diplomatically because no one now believes-that this is an internal crisis in which India has no part, politically because a counter attack by Pakistan may now seem a just response after so much provocation, and psychologically because President Yahya Khan would never free Sheikh Mujib in circumstance involving such direct crushing personal humiliation, and says the Guardian, Bangladesh without Sheikh Mujib will quickly fall apart. VH8 | ASEAN TOPICAL TALKS DESPATCH FROM AHMED NIZAMLDDIN IN DACCA. 2nd December. 1971 Edited by Mark Tully (8) According to a Pakistan Army spokesman in Dacca, Indian soldiers made attempts to advance towards East Pakistan's north eastern Sylhet District at Shamshernagar airport and also at the western border railway station, Darsana in Kushtia District. The Army spokesman claimed to have bluffed the advance." A source however said "Serious fighting awaited but reports reaching Dacca said that Indian soldiers have is still continuing in these to fronts". Further details are still attacked an the border districts including Bhomra and Sarkara in Khulna, Afra, Similia, Bhadra, Khalishpur Industrial Town. Ustail and Andalbar in Khulna. Kamalpur in Mymensingh, Shamshernagar and Unachom in Sylhet district, Casba, Saldanadi, Barajala, Genagadar Bazar. Patharnagar and Harimangal in Comilla and Chota Harina in Chittagong district. A military source today circulated and published the pictures of two Indian soldiers of 515 Gurkha Regiment with their identification numbers. The two soldiers were killed at Jaintiapur area within East Pakistan territory. The photographs were produced to prove India's involvement in the present war.