পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৯০

858 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড Routine Nature Mr. Ali then suggested an empty residential flat, which was in his possession for the team to examine him. In fact, the examination of Mr. Ali was of a routine nature because Mr. Ali had made it abundantly clear in newspaper statements and also in television appearances that he belonged to the Republic of Bangladesh. The Press Attaché of the Bangladesh Mission Mr. Maqsood Ali, was down with chicken pox and was unable to be present at the interview. Dr. Bonard and his team went up to Mr. Ali's residence to examine him in his sick-bed "from a safe distance" Mr. Ali's reply was no different from those of others. Only one member of the Mission staff was away from Calcutta and he was expected back any moment. Later, in the evening, Mr. Hossain Ali addressed a Press conference in his Mission office to say that he and members of his staff had agreed to be examined in the presence of Mr. Masud only because of their anxiety "to end the impasse leading to the continued house arrest of the Indian Mission members in Dacca". Mr. Ali said that the Pakistani allegation regarding the coercion of the Bengali members of the former Pakistan Deputy High Commission in Calcutta was "a lie". Each member of the staff in individual replies mostly written in Bengali said he did not want to return to Pakistan. Mr. Ali said that it should be clear now that the former Bengali members of the Pakistan Deputy High Commission in Calcutta transferred their allegiance to Bangladesh "willingly, gladly and sincerely". There was no question of "duress or coercion" as alleged by the Pakistan Government, Mr. Ali said. The only compulsion that led the Bengalis to transfer their allegiance was" the condition created by the Pakistan Government in Bangladesh". He said that "we had all been devoted and loyal servants of the Pakistan Government but if we changed our loyalties it was because of the Pakistani Army action in Bangladesh." Mr. Ali said that as the Chief of the Bangladesh Mission he had the rank of an Ambassador or a High Commissioner and that he could not be present at an examination conducted by a foreign representative Dr. Bonard lower in rank than himself and in the presence of a Pakistani officer who is only a Deputy High Commissioner. So he suggested a place of his own where they could come. They agreed to come to his place and Mr. Ali made his statement regarding his loyalties. Nod of Greeting Mr. Masud, who had been a junior colleague of Mr. Ali in the Pakistani Foreign Service tried to be friendly with Mr. Ali and gave him "a nod of greeting" Mr. Ali said that after what the Pakistani Army had been doing in Bangladesh he had not the heart to give the Pakistan Government's representative a nod in return. "He Smiled and did not." Mr. Ali said. The examination by Dr. Bonard which took place in three places first in the Hindi High School building, secondly in the residential flat appointed by Mr. Ali and lastly at the residence of Mr. Maqsood Ali lasted from 10-15 a.m. to 9 p.m. Dr. Bonard will be in Calcutta till another member of the Bangladesh Mission, who is now in Agartala feturnS