পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৯৩৪

বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড National Assembly would not meet and the question of transfer of power would not arise.... Pakistani newspapers have quoted Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan as having said that this sympathy and support for Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been the main cause of the continuing trouble in East Bengal. According to him if there had been a concerted attempt to quell the trouble in East Bengal the situation would have become normal by now. Stooge Complains "But due to powerful elements working almost in every sphere of life, attempts to crush the anti-national forces in Bangladesh have not been successful so far." An East Bengali stooge of the regime Maulvi Farid Ahmed, has gone a step further. He has complained that "powerful elements in West Pakistan were helping the Awami League revolt in East Bengal. Maulvi Farid Ahmed who has been installed by the military regime as the President of the Pakistan Council for Peace and Welfare has been quoted by pro-military newspapers like the Imroze of Lahore and the Jung of Karachi as having said that severe trouble was also likely to break out in West Pakistan on the pattern of what had happened in East Pakistan. Maulvi Farid Ahmed who also heads the Nizam-E-Islam Party in East Bengal claimed that even the Government was in possession of authentic data about the way some of the very powerful elements in West Pakistan are continuing to help the Awami League financially, materially and morally. The Government had not taken any steps against them only because of the fear that the situation might worsen with such an action he disclosed. Talking about the situation in Bangladesh, Maulvi Farid Ahmed said that the conditions continue to be far from normal. Attacks by anti-national elements under the influence of the Awami League have increased. Inspite of the heroic work done by the army pro-Pakistani elements have to face danger to life and property at every step. Maulvi Farid Ahmed also said that during the last few months hundreds of proPakistani "patriots" had to lose their lives at the hands of the Awami League guerillas. Maulvi Farid Ahmed's statement assumes significance because of two reasons, Firstly, it discloses the great sympathy for the Bangladesh cause West Pakistan. This also gives the lie to the claim of the regime that the trouble in Bangladesh was due barely to the help "the miscreants". Secondly, Maulvi Farid Ahmed has categorically admitted that the resistance movement in East Bengal was growing much stronger and the freedom-fighters has made hundreds of collaborators of the regime the targets of their wrath.