536 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড For the past ten days I've been in West Pakistan-having been kicked out of East Pakistan by the Army and trying together with the rest of the population to see through the smokescreen of official statements and denials exactly what is going on. People in West Pakistan, who listened only to their own government, would have had absolutely no idea that anything much had happened in East Pakistan, let alone that anyone had been killed. But now the extent of the disturbance is beginning to show even through the official denials. There have been plenty of eye witnesses during the past week to the Killings and destruction in the East Pakistan capita), Dacca, and in the seaport Chittagong, down in the south. Yesterday Radio Pakistan talked of armed infiltrators being driven out of towns in the north east, and the North West. And for the first time, spoke of the Pakistan Air Force being involved in the operations. The report claimed that civilian life die not suffer any damage. Across the border in India, news agency claims that four towns in East Pakistan have been bombed, and maintains that there have been several successes by what it calls the "Liberation Army". These claims, coming from India, will be greeted with fury and derision in official quarters in West Pakistan where people angrily maintain that the Indian reports are merely fabricated as part of the war of words between Pakistan and India. Censorship or not, obviously people in West Pakistan have heard, through rumour and foreign broadcasts, a fair amount about what's going on and in private conversation I've found great sorrow but at the same time, determination that East Pakistan will not be allowed to its own way. In the short term, obviously the Army can garrison the main towns, but as the reports trickle in about trouble in town after town throughout the country, the Pakistan claims that it's being caused by a few miscreants and armed infiltrators wear thin, and the prospects of a long drawn out, bitter struggle, seem very real. Scripted by Bush House News Transcribing Unit Vo DESPATCH FROM WASHINGTON by Charles Wheeler 7tli April, 1971 U. S. AND PAKISTAN The State Department said today that its officially urged Pakistan to take every feasible step to bring an end to the conflict in East Pakistan, and to achieve a peaceful accommodation with the Bengali rebels there. The State Department spokesman said this and other American views on the struggle in East Pakistan have been conveyed to the country's ambassador in Washington, Agha Hilaly, on Monday. The American ambassador to Pakistan has also been instructed to
