SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: It is true that from the time in 1954 when the United States started arming Pakistan, Pakistan has already received from the United States military equipment worth between US dollar 2 billion, and this enabled them to have the real basis of their Army, their Navy and their Air Force, and this enabled them to build their war machine. About the question of recognition, he has spent quite a good part of his speech on this. I am sorry I have nothing to add to what I have already stated on the question of recognition. There is no use linking the same question with several other matters. That is the basic, substantive question and we do not do justice to this question by linking it with the United States or with china or with any country supplying arms to Pakistan. That is a separate substantive question about which I have already stated Government’s position and I have nothing more to add. Lastly, he asked one specific question as to whether India. I would like to say that this mention US dollar 5 million worth offered to India I have also read in the newspapers and their statements. There, is no truth in this...........
SHRICHITTA BASU: Are you going to reject it?
SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: there is no truth in it. What I have to do with resenting? We are not taking anything.
SHRISUNDAR SINGH BHANDARI: He says “reject “not “resent”.
SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: There is nothing, we are not taking anything
SHRISUNDAR SINGH BHANDARI: Even if it is.
SHARDAR SWARAN SINGH: What do you mean by “even if it is"? All these are hypothetical things to be answered by the Opposition.
SHRICHITTA BASU: What about your attitude?
SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: About our attitude with regard to the US supply of arms to Pakistan I have already stated and I would like to repeat that in the present stage this amounts to helping the military rulers of Pakistan to carry on their atrocities against the unarmed people of Bangladesh, and it had always been, and is more so now, a threat to India because of Pakistan’s own showing they have no country with any other country except India. So any accrual to the arms strength of Pakistan is directly a threat to use and it is for this reason that we have not left any of these countries, which are supplying arms to Pakistan, in any doubt about the dander that we face on account of any accrual to the military strength of Pakistan.
May I, Mr. Deputy Chairman submit for your consideration that we have heard a fairly large number of observations and that really the same questions are being repeated again and again? I would like the Chair to exercise some discretion and decide as to whether any new question is being asked or whether the same thing is put over and over again.
MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: Order, order please.
SHRI M. S. GURUPADASWAMY: sir much ground has been covered already. I shall be very brief. I want to pose one question to the hon. Minister. Do we or do we not
