Gluilam Azam: Jamaat.e-Islami's Prof. Azam was rejected by Dacca voters during the last elections when he received 35,527 votes against Zahiruddin's 116,204 votes.
There are a number of other individuals who have been projected by the military government as “representatives” of East Pakistan but whose contact with the masses is even worse that of the above mentioned.
Can we regard these elements are representative of Last Pakistan? Can a political arrangement agreed upon by these individuals work? Ilave not we learnt from the history that the politics of creating Quislings, Vichys, Diems. Thieus, Kys, and Lon Nols does not work? Don't we realize that this is an exercise in self-deception?
Let us not try to deceive ourselves. Let us not become pawns in this creul game. Let us begin to see the reason.
No matter what reservations we have about the Awami League and its program, we cannot be blind to the fact that no settlement can be imposed on the Bengali people against their wishes. The salvation of the people of both East Bengal, as well as West Pakistan lies in honoring the people's right to self-determination. Only then bloodshed and hatred can subside.
Let us be free people by refusing to enslave others.
Issued by WEST PAKISTANIS IN SOLIDARITY WITH BENGAL
