We are prepared to sign defense pacts, both offensive and defensive, with any country which is prepared to help us against our one enemy-India.
(Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, President, Muslim League, in Lahore, Nov. 26,1956)
...We want them (Britain in the Baghdad Pact) for our defense purposes..... Our first duty is to strengthen our defense, Particularly against India no Matter what others might say.
(Malik Firoz Khan Noor, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore, Dec. 8, 1956)
We are very gravely apprehensive of communistic domination, infiltration and aggression. We desire to keep ourselves as far away as we can from coming under their influence... Peace in the world is really in the hands of the free democracies.
(Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan, at a press conference in Los Angeles, reported in civil and Military Gazette. Lahore, July 17, 1957)
It is difficult to believe that a Prime Minister of Pakistan can stand up in Parliament and say, that for eleven years we have given nothing but threats of war to India to settle the Kashmir dispute. And yet Mr. Noon did it on Monday.
(Leader, Karachi, Sept. 3, 1958)
Man still continues to be the first and most effective weapon of war and Pakistan being the best fighting force can challenge thrown by India or western countries to preserve and protect their freedom.
(Chaudhury Ghulam Abbas, President, jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, reported in Dawn, Karachi, Dec.22, 1962)
It has become a Practice with the unpopular government of Pakistan for always to dub the popular democratic forces of the country, as Indian agents.
(Sangbad, Dacca, Dcc. 8, 1964)
For some time now, the rulers are not depending simply on police excesses to crush the democratic upsurge of the vast masses against autocratic rule, but following in the footsteps of Hitler and Mussolini have let loose a band of hired hooligans on the innocent unarmed countrymen.
(The Daily Ittefaq, Dacca, Dec. 10, 1964)
After capturing power in 1958, Ayub Khan proposed to India a joint defense pact against the danger from the North. Later that danger vanished, as if by magic, and overnight the North became friendly and side by side a relentless Jehad of antiIndia utterances was launched. As usual, a huc and cry was raised about Kashmir. It looks as though the rulers of Pakistan have made up their mind to stir up some trouble against India.
(‘Bhimrool’ in the Daily Ittefaq, Dacca, Dec. 13, 1964.)
