পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮২০

788 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড pressures and tensions generated by the refugee influx New Delhi owes it to the nation not to lose the cool it has so far admirably maintained. Islamabad is under increasing pressures of its own and although these will not yield early results they will ultimately be more fruitful than any overt move by India. President Yahya Khan's admission that Pakistan's economy "is so bad that I cannot tell you" is the single decisive irrefutable truth in a barrage of falsehood and distortion. Mr. Swaran Singh's mission abroad will presumably be to persuade world opinion to increase economics pressure while clarifying his view, expressed recently in the Rajya Sabha, that the crisis in East Bengal is "essentially" a matter to be settled between the people of Bangladesh and West Pakistan. The point here is that the major powers need to be convinced that New Delhi has no intention of further complicating a situation which is already complex enough; and that in its view any intervention will be counterproductive in the larger context as well in the interests of Bangladesh. Already the scrupulous restraint with which New Delhi has conducted itself has begun to pay dividends. Pakistan's frantic attempts to cast India in the role of prime instigator have completely misfired is also its claims that normal conditions have been restored in East Bengal. The deep skepticism with which Islamabad's claims and statements are now internationally received can yet result in pressures which President Yahya will find irresistible. There can be no short cut to a solution and meanwhile New-Delhi's concern must be to preserve what stability it can in the border areas without surrendering to the irresponsible demands for "strong action".