পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭০২

670 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড fast mounting higher. The use of tanks and aircraft suggesting the beginnings of a war of attribution followed successful immobilization of troops by the freedom fighters by raising wood and brick barricade across streets in almost all towns, by blowing up bridges over the rivers and streams crisscrossing the land and by dismantling railway tracks and destroying railway stations. The Pakistani authorities claimed the army had established effective control over the whole of East Pakistan and conditions were fast returning to normal but unwittingly confirmed the impediments in their way when they broadcast a new martial law order calling for removal of all barricades on pain of destruction of all buildings within 1(X) yards of such obstructions. The army authorities claimed that the father of the newborn Republic Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, whom President Yahya Khan had yesterday charged with treason, had been arrested, but the free Bangla Radio stations—at least three of them were on the air at different times during the day-asserted he was safe and free one of them carrying a live broadcast by him assuring the people he was in full command of affairs and exhorting them to carry on the fight. A steamer carrying arms and ammunition was seized by about 1,000 Bangladesh freedom fighters at Nawabganj. a sub-divisional town on the bank of the Ganga, reports reaching at Krishnanagar said tonight. The steamer was about to leave for the arm controlled Rajshahi town when it was captured, the reports added. Mr. Mujibur Rahman, in a proclamation broadcast over a free Bangla Radio, promised to permit the West Pakistani troops to return home safely if they surrendered to the liberation forces with their arms. He warned that if they failed to do 'freedom-fighters will avenge the blood of Bengalis with blood'. In another proclamation, he declared that anyone in Bangladesh who helped the 'foreign' West Pakistani army would be tried by people's courts. A Free Bangla broadcast said members of a West Punjabi regiment, under a seige by a Bengali regiment and freedom-fighters since yesterday, had started surrendering. A Baluchi regiment deployed in Bangladesh was said to have defied their West Punjabi Commanders. Reports from inside Bangladesh said units of the liberation force had repulsed Pakistani troops' attempts to seize control of the towns of Chittagong, Comilla, Dinajpur and Sylhet from the freedom-fighters. An attempt by the troops to capture the Patenga airport near Chittagong was also foiled. The Liberation force unit there was said to have been led by a Brigadier, named Karim. Freedom-fighters reported a major success in the capture of Mongla Port. The Chief of the East Pakistan rifles in Khulna with his entire battalion, was pitted against the troops in this action.