908 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৩৮১ পাক হাইকমিশনের অধিকাংশ হিন্দুস্তান ষ্টান্ডার্ড ৩ নভেম্বর, ১৯৭১ বাঙালী কর্মচারীর পলায়ন HINDUSTAN STANDARD, NOVEMBER 3, 1971 MOST OF THE BENGALIS IN PAK HC RUN TO FREEDOM From Our Special Correspondent New Delhi, November. 2.- Ten of the remaining 11 Bengali employees of the Pakistani High Commission here with their families today escaped to freedom from the High Commission premises, described by the chief of the Bangladesh mission as "a butcher's house." The other employee Mr. Hossain Ali identified as personal assistant to Mr. Abdul Ghani the head of the Pakistan intelligence net-work in India, could not make it as he was mercilessly beaten by West Pakistani personnel and dragged inside from the gate through which the others made their last run to freedom. While Mr. Hossain Ali lay unconscious inside the High Commission compound with his wife and three daughters by his side his two teen-aged sons came out with others. The wife of another employee Mr. Khaliluddin personal assistant to the Pakistani Air adviser along with her two daughters and a minor son could not come out. However, after nearly two hours she was allowed to come out of the mission premises with her children and join her husband and two sons who had escaped earlier. As Mr. H. R. Chowdhury head of the Bangladesh Mission with his two colleagues, Mr. K. M. Shehabuddin and Mr. Amjadul Haq rushed to the spot on receipt of information the Pakistanis from inside the High Commission compound began showering brickbats on the Bengali employees sitting outside on the road with whatever little belongings they could manage to bring out. Mr. Chowdhury and his two colleagues with the help of newsmen foreign and Indian and the police led the women and the children to safety from the shower of brickbats. They also carried their belongings lying scattered near the gate. The whole drama started early in the morning when the entire Bengali personnel of the High Commission along with their families collected near a side gate of the High Commission. Before they could make good their escape scaling the low wall a large number of West Pakistanis headed by Group Captain Azim Daudpota. Air Adviser Mr. Abdul Ghani, First Secretary, identified as the head of the Pakistani Intelligence network and Mr. Ahmed Zabeed Shah also a first Secretary described as the man in charge of Pakistani espionage in Kashmir pounced on them and stalled beating them mercilessly. Some of the Bengali employees jumped the wall and came on the street outside and started shouting "Jai Bangla". Others began throwing their children over the wall to freedom. Meanwhile, some Indian-policemen attracted by the shouts, collected near the gate. The Pakistanis then opened the gate and allowed the Bengalis to go out. But Mr.
