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280 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড Rahim, who had always advocated a prolonged and decisive war against India. He said with a tinge of irony. 'Bus daney nioock gaey-itni jaldi'(Have you lost your nerve-so soon!) Rahim insisted that it was already too late. During the discussion, Lieutenant-General Niazi and Major-General Jamshed entered the room to see the ‘wounded General’. Rahim repeated the suggestion to Niazi, who showed no reaction. Till then the exceptation of foreign help had not finally been extinguished. Avoiding the subject, Farman slipped into the adjoining ΤΟΟΙΥΥ. After spending some time with Rahim, General Niazi walked into Farman’s room and said. Then send the signal to Rawalpindi. It appeared that he had accepted General Rahim’s advice, as he had always done in peace-time. General Niazi wanted Government House to send the cease go from Headquarters, Eastern Command but General Niazi insisted, ‘No, it makes little difference whether the signal goes from here or from there. I have, in fact, some important work elsewhere, you send it from here. Before Farman could Say ‘no’ again Chief Secretary Muzaffar Husain Entered the room and, overhearing the conversation, said Niazi, You are right. The signal can be sent from here. 'That resolved the ,said to Niazi, you,'You are right. The signal can be sent from here. ' That resolved the conflict. What General Farman opposed was not the cease-fire proposal itself, but the authority to sponsor it. His earlier signal on the same subject had been rejected by Rawalpindi-once bitten, twice shy. General Niazi disappeared to attend to his “urgent work’ while Muzaffar Husain drafted the Historic note. It was seen by Farman and submitted to the Governor who approved the idea and sent it to the President the same evening (12 December). The note urged Yadya Khan to the everything possibleto save innocent lives’. Next day the Governor and his principal aides waited for orders from Rawalpindi, but the president seemed too busy too busy to take a decision. The following day (14 December) for which a high level meeting was fixed, three Indian MIGs attacked Government House at 11-15.a.m.and ripped the missive roof of the main hall. The Governor rushed to the air-raid shelter and scribbled out his resignation. Almost all the inmates of this seat of power survived the raid, except for some fishes in a decorative glass case. They restlessly tossed on the hot rubble and berated their last. The Governor, his cabinet and West Pakistani civil servants moved, on 14 December to the Hotel Intercontinental which had been converted into a “Neutral Zone’ by the international Red Cross. The West Pakistani V.I.P.s included the Chief Secretary, the inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner, Dacca Division, Provincial Secretaries and a few others. They “dissociated themselves in writing from the Government of Pakistan in order to the gain admittance to neutral Zone, because anybody belonging to a belligerent state was not entitled to Red Cross protection. 14 December was the last day of the East Pakistan Government. The debris of the Government and Government House were scattered. The enemy had only to neutralize