and economic aid by big powers and middle powers and the mute Character of their reaction to happenings in Bangladesh.
The world had been waiting for Yahya Khan’s expected broadcast on political settlement with the people he had lately been talking of. India was waiting with bated breath, for apart from the unbearable burden thrust on her by nearly seven million refugees and What further still threatens round the corner, Pakistan with which we agreed to part under compulsion of history, going up in flames is sure to involve the sub-continent as a whole in the conflagration. The world is replec with example, of political upheavals being phenomena which are indivisible. The long awaited declaration of Yahya Khan is now out of the bag. The Army junta bolstered up by the big powers seems determined like Duryodhan of the Mahabharaata days of old, not giving an inch of ground even if it means annihilation of West Pakistan herself. The llam therefore must spread, Nature is working its inexorable logic out. By now our emissaries, both official and non- official, have completed a survey of the world. We Must now be convinced that the world is a sleep and even those who are awake are unwilling to be disturbed unduly and would acquiesce in the statuesque or fair accompli. Whatever the case may be, India cannot wait any longer for others to pull the chestnut out of the fire for us. Being direct neighbors we are directly involved. We cannot afford out get ourselves swallowed by the flame which is spreading if we wish to survive as a nation. Even our honest wishes to the people of Pakistan to coexist in peace with us demand some action from us as the direct neighbors today and common citizens of same country Yesterday.
The British power avowedly divided India to let the people of the Subcontinent co-exist at peace. Our acquiescence even though under duress was based on the assumption that the people of Pakistan would mould their life according to the will of their people. The past twenty four years of Pakistan history culminated in the anti-climax since 25th of March this year, has confirmed beyond dispute that it is not Bangladesh with a population of 75 million which is sceeding from West Pakistan with a people of 65 million. The majority does not and can not secede. It is the majority which is seceding. What is worse, an Army Junta backed by monopoly capital with an engineered backing of a minority is suppressing the win of a majority. Communist powers are ready to come to the rescue of their brothers in difficulty in whatever part of the globe they mat the. Cuba for example. Democracy has on chance for survival unless people in a Democracy can assert themselves collectively and on free volition to come to the rescue of their brothers where freedom has been threatened. America could provide on justification for going into the First or the Second World War, to cite by way of an example, but for this basic consideration which prompted their action. Even if we have on other nation in the World coming to our side we are massive enough as a people and have a oral obligation to come to the aid of the major population in Pakistan Who have declared their independence by having a provisional Government, no matter where that Government is located and what the extent of the territory under its present control may be. The first pre-requisite therefore is the recognition of the rights of power to the people in Bangladesh and as logical corollary the recognition of the provisional Bangladesh and as logical corollary the recognition of the provisional Bangladesh Government and facilitate this Government securing such assistance from India or from elsewhere as can enable the 75 million people of Bangladesh to overpower the tyranny that has been unleashed on
