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544 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড The first point that seems apparent is that Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, in the dual roles of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister will be the person to reckon with. Although he is Prime Minister, Mr. Nurul Amin is aged Seventy eight, and though far from feeble, obviously has not the energy of Mr. Bhutto. Mr. Bhutto has always taken the most uncompromising attitude towards India. Seeing affairs from the standpoint of West Pakistan, he is doubtless encouraged by the news from three that the Pakistan army has made considerable inroads into Kashmir. Doubtless Mr. Bhutto is also apprised of the true military situation in East Pakistan. Neutral observers now feel there may have been some point to the theorizing which was current in certain circles in West Pakistan nearly three months ago, to the effect that Pakistan's strategy should be to realize that the East Wing one thousand miles away would be difficult to bold in a war with India, and that Pakistan must aim at securing an equal amount of territory in the West to hold as a bargaining counter. The argument be effective if, as happened in nineteen sixty-five, world pressure secures an end to hostilities. Thus far attempts in the United Nations to secure a cease fire have failed. Meanwhile East Pakistan suffers. It was only made clear today that in the Indian high level bombing in the early hours of Saturday, a stick of four bombs fell on worker's lines of a jute mill at Adamji-nagar in Dacca. One bomb failed to explode. The other three caused frightful damage to the flimsy dwellings over a total area of six hundred yards square. It is estimated that five-hundred people died, and that two hundred-and-fifty are still under the rubble which workers are clearing with their bare hands, ১৩ । DESPATCH FROM DELHI 11" December, 1971 by John Osman (1) From Calcutta the Indian news agency P.T.I., and All-India Radio report that one Hercules aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force and one of the Royal Air Force have been refused permission to land at Dacca airport by the Pakistani authorities there and that the planes have returned to Calcutta. They are two of four such flights, one Canadian and three Royal Air Force, which had been given safe conduct by the Indian Air Force to enable the evacuation operation to take place within the 24 hours up to 6 p. m. Indian Standard Time this evening, 12.30 p.m. Saturday London time. Pakistani authorities were said yesterday to have cleared the operation but now the situation seems to have altered. From New Delhi John Osman. The planned evacuation of about 500 foreigners from Dacca is in trouble, The Canadian plane, flying with United Nations markings for the World organisation, was first reported to have been turned back to Calcutta, then one of the Royal Air Force flights followed suit. The Dacca authorities, I understand from reliable sources here, declined to allow the flights to land, and the reason is said to be that the Pakistanis object to the planes coming in from India-enemy territory. On this side the Indians have so far