বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৫৬। মার্কিন সরকার পাকিস্তানে নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস ২৯ জুন, ১৯৭১ সাহায্যদান অব্যাহত রাখবে THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDA Y, JUNE 29, 1971 U. S. SAYS IT WILL CONTINUE AID TO PAKISTAN DESPITE CUTOFF URGED BY OTHER NATIONS By Tad Szulc Special to The New York Times Washington, June 28-The Nixon Administration reaffirmed today that it intended to provide economic aid to Pakistan despite international pressures to halt foreign assistance until the central Government reached a political accommodation with East Pakistan. Most of the 11 nations forming the Aid 0 Pakistan Consortium have concluded that assistance, running at about $500-million a year, should be withheld pending a political settlement of the crisis that resulted in the death of an estimated 200,000 East Pakistanis and the flight to India of about six million refugees. The World Bank, which coordinates assistance to Pakistan has recommended against further aid. Britain. Canada and Belgium, among other members of the consortium, have taken a similar stance. Their positions emerged at an informal meeting of the consortium held in Paris last Monday to receive the report of a World Bank mission that toured Pakistan. Robert S. McNamara, the president of the bank, was reported to have approved this policy last Thursday. Administration officials reported at Senate hearings today that the United States said in Paris that it disapproved of the policy of denying economic aid to Pakistan as a political instrument of pressure. This view was reaffirmed here today. Testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Christopher Van Hollen, said that by providing economic aid the United States would have" leverage in persuading President Yahya Khan to seek a "political accommodation" in East Pakistan on the basis of autonomy and to create conditions allowing the refugees to return. Tie admitted, however, that such 'leverage' was not yet measurable and that few refugees had returned home. Mr. Van Hollen also announced that the Administration had no plans for placing a full embargo on shipments of military equipment to Pakistan. He told the subcommittee, headed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, that it was "likely that additional military equipment will be shipped to Pakistan,"
