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out. Now he could not euro less if Yahya's international position is made doubly ludicrous by his repeated failures to keep the schedule of Dacca tour.

 One thing is certain that the twin can no longer co-exist. Either Tikka goes or Yahya goes. Apparently, President Nixon would like to see both go leaving the power in the hands of other pro-American generals who might not find it so difficult to swallow some kind of an agreement with Sheikh Mujib. The President is clearly against Bangladesh independence but would be very happy to see a political solution within the framework of Pakistan-something that is, of course, totally unacceptable to the people of Bangladesh now.

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 According to latest reports Pakistani ambassadors to USA and UK have been called back. It is not known whether they have been sacked or are going to be put in the secretarial godown of Islamabad with some inconsequential assignments in corridors of the foreign office. Whatever happens to their fate-it is now clear that the gang must have been going nuts over the national and international mess they succeeded in creating out of almost nothing over last few months.

 The faults of Aga Hilaly-Yahya's man in Washington and Salman All, his henchman in Britain to warrant this hit in the stomach have been their failure to get even a single story published in the US and the British press in support of Yahya's crimes in Bangladesh. But, by Jove, didn't they try? It was indeed a difficult task for Salman Ali, or any other diplomat for that matter except the Americans, to get anything published in the British press with which the editors didn't agree. Poor Salman knew this and gave up futile efforts after some initial failures. But Hilaly, by nature, is a different kettle offish, He is such a pest that the simple mono-syllables like “no” are rather insufficient to dampen his spirit. Moreover, he happened to be an East Pakistani domicile. Although he could not speak a word of the Bengali he bagged his ambassadorship from the Bengali quota. Being originally a refugee from Madras he could never be one of the family with the Punjabi coterie in the foreign office. He would have been set aside long long ago had it not been for that Bengali quota business. At a time when Yahya was busy committing genocide for sheer selfsurvival he had indulged in frequenter and louder yap-yap in favor of the crimes even if it was only to prove that he wasn't a Bengali after all. He got himself TV spots and whined like a school-boy before the American viewers complaining that the American press never listens to him-never publishes his handouts. These were such pathetic shows that even the rustic tin-gods of Islamabad felt embarrassed. And the Punjabi coterie was just waiting for the chance to get rid of him.

 But would it be possible for their successors to score better marks? How could mi anyone defend such a revolting case anyway? After all, a measure of civilization still exists outside the borders of Pakistan and Lin Piao's China. There it is impossible to present a linen soaked in the blood of at least a million innocent lives as something snow white....