773 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তানের মিশনসমূহে কর্মরত এশিয়ান রেকর্ডার, সেপ্টেম্বর ২-২১আগষ্ট, কূটনীতিবিদদের বাংলাদেশের পক্ষাবলম্বন ১৭-২৩, ১৯৭১ ՏԵԳՖ সংক্রান্ত তথ্যাদি ২-২১ আগষ্ট Defection Of Diplomats: An all-time record in the annals of diplomatic history was set up on August 5 when all the 14 Bengali diplomats in the Pakistani Mission in USA defected en masse to Bangladesh. According to diplomatic observers, never before had such a large scale defection taken place anywhere in the world. It Was considered a stunning blow to the credibility of Islamabad's propaganda machine. Bengali members serving in Pakistani Missions abroad had been placed under surveillance and in one Mission no Press statement was issued as the Press Attache happened to be a Bengali. According to a report received in New Delhi, all the Bengali staff of the Pakistani I\fissions in Washington and New York were under orders of transfer to Islamabad. Some trumped-up charges were made to remove some of them to Islamabad. On August 2, an East Bengali employee of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, Mr. Abdul Majid, eluded strict surveillance to turn up at a private Indian home and declared that he was changing his allegiance to the People's Republic of Bangladesh. On arriving at the Indian home, be asked to be put in touch with Mr. K. M. Shahabuddin, a former Pakistani diplomat who had switched his loyalty to the Bangladesh Government soon after the army crackdown. Mr. Majid joined Pakistan's Ministry of Information and National Affairs in 1964. After working in Karachi and Islamabad, he was posted to the Delhi mission in 1968. In a brief statement to the Press, Mr. Majid said: "I have left the Pakistan High Commission to serve the cause of Bangladesh. I declare my allegiance to the People's Republic of Bangladesh and its Government." Another Defection From Pakistan High Commission: Mr. Fazlul Haque Chowdhury, an Assistant Labour Attache at the Pakistan High Commission in London, switched his allegiance to Bangladesh on August 12 in protest against the "farcical trial" of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Mr. Chowdhury was the fourth Pakistani diplomat in Britain to defect. He announced his decision on August 11 just as about 2,000 Bengalis went to the official residence of the British Prime Minister in Downing Street to urge the release of Sheikh Rahman. The demonstrators assembled at Hyde Park and marched through the main streets of London before dispersing:
