| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
| ১৩৮। ‘প্রত্যাবর্তনকারী নাগরিকদর প্রতি পাকিস্তানের স্বাগতম’ | সরকারী প্রচার পুস্তিকা | জুলাই, ১৯৭১ |
PAKISTAN WELCOMES
RETURNING CITIZENS
Ever since the partition of the Subcontinent, there has been considerable movement of people between the: newly independent states of India and Pakistan. For instance, nearly 10 million Muslim refugees were pushed into Pakistan by India in 1947 in a bid to smother the young State in its very infancy. In the reverse traffic, about 7 million none, Muslims too went into India and this inflow and outflow has continued ever since: East Pakistan has received more than a million and a half persons from West Bengal, Assam and Tripura. Every time a communal riot breaks out India (according to Indian papers, there have been 3,477 communal riots in India since 1951 with 7,476 persons dead and 32.44 injured) thousands of Muslims are forced to take refuge in Pakistan, mostly through unguarded unofficial routes to get round the Pakistan Government's general ban on entry of refugees from India.
As communal riots are a frequent occurrence in India-there were 519 of these during, the year 1970-71 alone, according to a statement in the Indian Parliament itself the influx of refugees from India is more or less a continuing process. The larger the magnitude of the carnage-of which the most recent instances were those at Ahmedabad, Maharashtrathe greater the flooding in of refugees from India.
India's Policy of Encouraging Exodus
In sharp contrast to Pakistan's policy of discouraging inflow of refugees, the Government of India has followed a deliberate policy of inviting Hindus from East Pakistan. The temptations offered have included promise of lump sum payments, land and industrial units. Economic experts believe that the smuggling of gold and other movable property by members of the minority community has resulted in large scale transfer of resources from East Pakistan to India and became one of the major factors retarding the economic growth of East Pakistan. Actually during the last election campaign, many East Pakistan political Parties regretted the fact that while Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League criticized what it called the transfer of resources from East Pakistan to West Pakistan, they remained suspiciously silent on the much larger flow of national wealth across the border into West Bengal.
This process touched its peak in the earlier part of this year when Awami League rebels and their collaborators carried away to West Bengal not only massive stores of food-grains and other essential supplies, but a very large number of trucks, buses, jeeps
