পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৬৭

43 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড 3. The Budapest Peace Conference condemned the Pakistani atrocities in Bangladesh. 4. The 72nd birthday of Poet Nazrul Islam is being celebrated throughout Bangladesh today. 5. The Liberation Forces captured a gunboat, shattered a culvert and burnt Pakistani check posts. 6. The Chief of the Pakistan Bouddha Krishti Prachar Sangha has cabled U Thant about the plight of the Buddhists in Bangladesh. 7. Mr. Justice Abu Sayeed Choudhury, a Bangladesh special envoy to the U. N. O. has proceeded to New York. 8. Terrors talks every corner of East Bengal today, says the London Times. 9. The Soviet President Mr. Podgorny arrived in Cairo yesterday. The acting President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Syed Nazrul Islam has said that in the recognition of the independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh lies the key to the restoration of normalcy in that part of the world. He has expressed his hope that the United Nations will not fail to bring in pressure on the Pakistani Government to pull Pakistani forces out of Bangladesh. The acting President of Bangladesh was talking lo a special correspondent of United Press International. While commenting on the Secretary General U Thant's appeal seeking relief for the Bengalee evacuees in India, Syed Nazrul Islam said that the appeal of U That is an admission' that a large number of Bengalees had to leave their hearth and home under a terrible situation perpetrated by the military junta of Pakistan. The unbearable circumstances that warrants the people to leave their homeland is also evident in the Secretary General's appeal itself. Syed Nazrul Islam told the U. P. I. correspondent that he hoped the Secretary General of the U. N. O. will take up the responsibility of creating such conditions inside Bangladesh to enable the evacuees to return home. By this he meant that the U. N. O. should bring pressure upon the Pakistani Government so that the Pakistani Occupation Army is withdrawn from Bangladesh and the freedom and sovereignty of Bangladesh is recognized. Only in that condition can normalcy be restored in Bangladesh. The Chairman of the War on Want organization of England, Mr. Donald Chessworth and a Labor Party M. P., Mr. Michael Burns called on the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed yesterday. The British leaders spent at least three hours with our Prime Minister and discussed points of mutual interest. The Question of recognition of Bangladesh by the British Government is believed to have