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On the breakup of Pakistan

 I don’t think any country in its right mind would want its neighbor to disintegrate. We have enough problems of our own without having a weak neighbor; its’ not a healthy situation... (But) it is our assessment that East Bengal cannot remain united with Pakistan ever again in the same way it has been.

On Soviet aid to India

 I’ve never asked for help at any age. Not even as a small child did I ask any person, “Will you do this for me or will you give me this”? I have not as ked the Soviet Union for help. I have explained to them as I have to other countries what the situation is. Now, it is up to the Soviet Union and other countries-to decide; is the stability of India important to our region or not?.. We certainly welcome help from whatever quarter it will come. We welcome support, we welcome sympathy. But I have-always stood on my own two feet and I want India always to stand on its feet. We don’t want to be dependent on any country in the world.

On Yahya Khan

 (He is) one man who could not get elected in his own country if there were a fair election. I would say he would not even get elected in province if there were a fair election..... (Asked to reply to a statement by President Yahya in last week’s Newsweek interview, Mrs. Gandhi noted that Yahya had referred to her as “that woman.”) That woman! I’m not concerned with the remark, but it shows the mentality of the person. I mean, how well has he judged his own capacity to deal with East Pakistan? If he can’t judge a very small section of what was his own country, what weight has his judgment on India? What does he know about it? It’s a world which is quite outside his ken.