পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৫৭

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625 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ২১৯ ব্যাপক ব্যবধান ও তীব্র ঘৃণা অটোয়া সিটিজেন ১৭ সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ THE OTTAWA CITIZEN (OTTAWA), SEPTEMBER 17, 1971 Editorial DEEP GULF AND HATRED-CAN PAKISTAN EVER BE THE SAME AGAINo Today the author discusses various attitudes in Pakistan. Many countries have been split from time to time-the United States during its civil war, Nigeria during its agony. But Pakistanis seem even more deeply divided. A young Punjabi chartered accountant declares: "We have only one problem in Last Pakistan-we don't have enough bullets to kill all of them India-lovers". A refugee from India, now a high government official declares: "It's true we are ruling them as a colony now and we will. They deserve it, after the brutalities they committed against innocent men, women and children. You wouldn't believe it. They behaved worse than animals". An East Pakistani says defiantly: "You can kill Mujib if you like. We are all Mujibs. You cannot kill us all. or rule us forever". One Bengali domestic servant took a shoe and hurled it at the screen when President Yahya Khan was addressing foreign newspaper men on television. Police were summoned and they took him away, as he kept on repeating: "Our army is being trained in India. We will soon be free". The gulf and hatred between the Pakistanis seems incredible. The East Pakistani policemen revolted in March. When government appeals to report for duty went unheeded, a police force was shipped from West Pakistan. Laborers were shipped to work in the mills as the Bengalis deserted the cities for the countryside. So were civil servants and bureaucrats from West Pakistan. Now slowly the East Pakistanis are returning to the cities and their jobs. Some policemen are back on duty, but are not issued arms as yet. In the central government, East Pakistanis draw full pay but have been transferred to posts where they can do little harm. These precautions seem justified for the present-and East Pakistani cook was caught not long ago mixing poison with food that was to be served in Quetta's military hospital. Hearing these stories, one wonders whether such a divided nation can ever be united except by force. There is some optimism in West Pakistan based on the argument that West Pakistan isn't interested in exploiting East Pakistan or in denying it autonomy and that once the East Pakistanis realized that Islamabad crushed only a foreign hatched secession movement they'd come around. Others feel the wound is now too deep to be healed. Not all West Pakistanis, however are behind the government nor are all East Pakistanis for secession. In West Pakistan, many voices were raised before March 25 against any tough action. Admiral S. M. Ahsan former commander-in-chief of the Pakistan navy, warned President Yahya that armed action in East Pakistan would be immoral and in the long run unworkable. He was removed as governor. Lt.-General Yakub similarly was replaced.