which are at the back of it. If staff and other resources are lacking, a special staff of selected hands should be appointed. The failure to discover and bring to book the offenders is an invitation to them and to others to continue with their activities. The intelligence authorities should find out to what extent the activity is individual, group- inspired or directed from outside. The role of the communists and the extent of support and the strategy of the Indians must also be discovered. What will also need watching is the possibility of disgruntled elements who feel that they are being wronged and that their salvation lies in forgoing a common front with similar elements on the other side of the border. The people must be convinced that their future and well-being is linked with Pakistan and finally, the fears and apprehensions of East Pakistanis must not be dismissed as imaginary and psychological. The geography of Pakistan and the fact that the scal of the Central Government, the headquarters of the army, navy and air force are all in West Pakistan, the shortage of East Pakistanis in the higher ranks of the services although (they cannot blame West Pakistan for it), the distrust which they have for the Presidential form of Government under which power will tend to become concentrated in the Central Government in West Pakistan, are factors which tend to accentuate differences and make the East Pakistanis suspicious. I have no doubt that if the seat of the Government was shifted from Rawalpindi to Dacca or Chittagong, the equanimity of West Pakistanis would not be the same. It must not also be forgotten that in India regional chauvinism is playing havoc with the unity and the solidarity of the country. Provincialism also exists in West Pakistan and seems to have become the order of the day in the Indo- Pakistan Sub-continent. One of the ways of which Indians propose to solve it is that in future the police and the Iligh Courts shall have not more than two-thirds of its personnel from the Province, the rest being imported from outside. Why can't some similar arrangement be made in Pakistan? The rail link will help to break the isolation of Eat Pakistan and then Dacca will be nearer to Lahore than Amritsar is from Madras.
In conclusion, I repeat that the appearance of the posters is ominous and reflects the state of mind of the extremists in East Pakistan whose faith in Pakistan appeal's to have been shaked. The developments in West Bengal which cause the people in that Province to feel nostalgic and bitter against the Government of India do not augur well as attempts may be made to forge a common front. There is a feeling that when the Martial Law is lifted, the floodgates of anger and hostility will break out. West Pakistan business executives working in East Pakistan have expressed some nervousness. Their fears may be exaggerated but the fact remains that the poster campaign will certainly unnerve the West Pakistanis now in East Pakistan.
Secretary.
