পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বিতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৮৭১

844 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বিতীয় খন্ড Bhutto had arrived in Dacca with his own team, and was having separate sessions with the President's team. This was because the Awami League felt that any substantive settlement lay in Yahya's hands, and Bhutto's role, to judge by past experience, was derivative. Since the President had so ably carried. Bhutto's brief no fear was felt that Bhutto would in fact oppose the settlement. As it happened, while the two teams were in session in President's House, Dacca, Yahya himself was in the Dacca cantonment talking to his generals. During this time the army had escalated the situation in Chittagong by Suddenly, deciding to unload ammunitions ship which had been immobilized for 17 days by the non-cooperation ImłO Vement. At 11 p.m. on March 25 troop movements into Dacca began. Yahya had flown off to Karachi a few hours earlier. Negotiations had been overtaken by war. Only this time they had not broken down. An agreed settlement, which even at that date might have kept Pakistan together, was available to the generals, and was ignored Footnotes I See Dawn. March 27, 1971. 3 See Dawn. May 7, 1971. 3 Sec speech by Sir Frederic. Bennett. Hansard. May 14, 1971. 4 See Naqvi, M.D., "West Pakistan's Struggle for Power", South Asian Review. Volume 4. Number 3, April 1971. 5 Sec Forum. March 1.J and 2 1971 for an account of this proce. The Author Relvnan Sobhan, one of Sheik Mujib's principal advisers, was in East Pakistan until early April. He was a reader in Economics at the University of Dacca, and a member of the government's panel of economists on the Fourth Five- Year Plan. He advised Sheik Mujib on constitutional and economic policy. He was also the Editor of Forum.