| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
| ইয়াহিয়ার পূর্ব পাকিস্তান আক্রমণ পূর্ব-পরিকল্পিত | বাল্টিমোর সান | ৩০ মার্চ, ১৯৭১ |
THE BALTIMORE SUN, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1971
YAHYA PEANNED ATTACK
ON EAST PAKISTAN
A Technicality Does Not Disguise
His Efforts to Snare Mujib
By John E. Woodruff
(Sun Staff Correspondent)
New Delhi, March 29-President A. M. Yahya Khan's West Pakistan military regime is offering the world a legal technicality as the reason for its Army's carefully co-coordinated surprise attack on East Pakistan.
Both President Yahya and key West Pakistani politicians have offered the same reason for their abrupt cancellation of the two weeks of political talks that preceded the Army's crackdown on East Bengal's nonviolent movement.
The reason, as expressed by President Yahya in his radio speech to the nation Friday night, was that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Bengali leader of East Pakistan, demanded that power be turned over to elected civilians by proclamation before the proposed National Assembly met.
Same Explanation
Omar Kasoury, a member of the West Pakistan-based Pakistan Peoples party's delegation to the negotiations, offered an identical explanation to reporters who spoke with him Friday morning as he left Dacca Intercontinental Hotel under heavy guard with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, head of the Peoples party.
Such a proclamation. General Yahya told the nation Friday night, “would not have been worth the paper it was written on, and he (Sheikh Mujib) could have done anything with impunity."
He did not explain how much a proclamation would have differed from the “legal-framework order" —a presidential proclamation with a longer title and the sole authority for last December's election and for the National Assembly that the Army never permitted to meet.
Instead, he said he had tentatively accepted the plan despite reservations-but on condition that all West Pakistani politicians give their “unequivocal agreement" to a plan that effectively would have put Sheikh Mujib's Bengali majority in charge of the country,
