পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (তৃতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৮৮২

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850 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশের স্বপক্ষে দূতাবাস কর্মীদের এশিয়ান রেকর্ডার, ২-৮ নভেম্বর, আনুগত্য প্রকাশের আরও ঘটনা -নভেম্বর ২- ডিসেম্বর ১৭-২৩-, ১৯৭১ ՏԵԳՏ br Diplomat in Singapore Defects To Bangladesh, A 39-year-old cipher assistant of the Pakistan High Commission in Singapore defected to the Bangladesh Government on November 8, declaring that in view of mass slaughter of his Bengali compatriots by the West Pakistan Army he could no longer serve the Islamabad military regime. Mr. Ali Ahmed, accompanied by his wife and three children, flew out of Singapore after mailing letters to news agencies and journalists and to the Pakistan High Commission in Singapore. Mr. Ahmed had been with the Pakistan mission for 10 months and was under orders of transfer to Islamabad. A Bengali, he was asked to vacate his house some days earlier to make way for his West Pakistani replacement and moved to East Asia Hotel from where he left to join the Bangladesh Government on the sub-continent. Although Bengali employees of the Pakistan mission had been kept out of important work, Mr. Ahmed in his capacity as cipher assistant was privy to most of the Secret messages coming to and emanating from Singapore. In fact, while there had been mass defections of Pakistani diplomats to Bangladesh, Mr. Ahmed was the only cipher official to declare his loyalty to the Bangladesh Government. More Mass Defections: On November 2, forty-three East Bengali men, women and children escaped to freedom from the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi after being severely beaten up by the West Pakistani staff. All of them switched their loyalty to Bangladesh. The group comprised 10 East Bengali employees of the High Commission and their families. Two of those injured as a result of the beating where admitted to hospital. With this mass escape, the only Bengalis left inside the Pakistan High Commission were Mr. Hossain All personnel assistant to Mr. Abdul Ghani head of the Pakistani intelligence net-work in India, Mrs. Hossain Ali and their three daughters and the wife, two daughters and a son of another Bengali employee who escaped himself. In Tokyo, on November 2, Mr. S. M. Maswood, Press, Attache of the Pakistani Embassy and his family and the Third Secretary, Mr. Mubammad Abdul Rahim, defected to Bangladesh because "we can pretend no more." Mr. Maswood, 56-year-old father of six children, and Mr. Rahim (29) are both from East Bengal. Mr. Maswood, serving in Tokyo since September 10, 1970, is from Comilla and Mr. Rahim, a bachelor, comes from Rajshahi in East Bengal. Mr. Rahim had been in Tokyo since September 30, 1970.