পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (সপ্তম খণ্ড).pdf/১০২

68 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড He added: “Wars are not answer. I hope in her heart she (Mrs. Gandhi) does not want war." The President said that Pakistan had always declared that she wanted to live in peace with her neighbors. "I firmly believe that wars settle nothing, "he added. President Yahya said that in two to three weeks he would come out with a policy statement. He was asked if he would make any amendments in the Legal Framework Order. The Press When a correspondent drew the attention of the President to the demand of Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto about the lifting of censorship the President said the Pakistan Press had 'never been so free as during the last two years." He said, "But as a result of this turmoil such an action was necessary to deflate hatred and frenzy." "It is a self-censorship" he added. The President said "We have only told the Press some do's and don'ts." He said that the real reason to ask foreign correspondents to leave East Pakistan was to get them out of the way of trouble. The President said that the plan of the defunct Awami League and its collaborators to capture the port of Chittagong and Dacca Airport and to "arrest me and my colleagues" was established now. He said, "But Sheikh Mujib forgot that he was facing a hard hitting, swift moving army." "We thought it is not going to be a comfortable place for foreign correspondents.’ "But now it is open again. You can go and see that things are under control" he said, pointing to the foreign correspondents present at the press conference. A correspondent asked the President that members of the National and Provincial Assemblies who won on the defunct Awami League's ticket had pledged to remain faithful to "Bangla Desh" and as such how could they be treated as faithful citizens. The President replied, "The six points of the defunct Awami League in their entirety were against the concept of Pakistan" But, he added. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had said they were flexible. "We believed him. The" President said that he had nothing against the name of "Bangladesh" as a province but he never realized that it meant "Bangla Desh" outside Pakistan. Replying to another question the President said that the general economy of the country as a whole was "bad" The happenings in East Pakistan, he added, had contributed to the worsening of the economy.