Further requests made in person in Pakistan by a member of the farm accompanying Mr. Sean MacBride (senior counsel) were also not acknowledged the letter said.
A Cairo report says UAR's leading newspaper A1 Ahram, expressed concern yesterday at the announcement that East Bengal leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was to be tried by a military court.
The newspaper said “National unity cannot be secured by military or secret trials and cannot be protected by the majority under an iron rule".
The paper said the interest shown in the fate of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was neither an expression of interference in Pakistan's internal affairs nor a confirmation of the separatist call from the national soil both principles of interference and separation were rejected categorically and unequivocally.
“This interest is rather due in the first place to a belief in the necessity for preserving national unity in Pakistan in both its castern and western provinces. This national unity is a sound expression of the aspirations of the masses and their leaderships in both the provinces", the paper added.
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