826 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্থানের মিশনসমূহের কুটনীতিবিদদের এশিয়ান রেকর্ডার, অক্টোবর সেপ্টেম্বর ১৩, বাংলাদেশের পক্ষাবলম্বনের আরও সংবাদ- ২২-২৮, ১৯৭১ অক্টোবর ১, ১৯৭১ ১৩ সেপ্টেম্বর-১ অক্টোবর More Defections To Bangladesh: On September 13, Mr. Mohiuddin Jaigirdar, a Pakistani diplomat, quit his country's Foreign Service and joined the Bangladesh Mission in London. Mr. Jaigirdar (34) had been head of Chancery and sometimes the acting High Commissioner at the Pakistani mission in Lagos. Nigeria. In a statement, he charged that many thousands of his East Bengali countrymen had been killed or maimed in the worst tragedy since. Hitler. He said: "No one with a conscience could be a silent spectator. To assist the junta Government in the sale of a pack of lies was no longer possible on my part" The same day (September 13), the Pakistani Ambassador to the Philippines, Mr. Khurrum Panni defected to the Bangladesh Government. Mr. Khurrum Panni (49) was the first diplomat of ambassadorial rank to defect to the Bangladesh Cause. He came to Manila as Ambassador in March, 1970 and his tenure of duty was not scheduled to end until late in October, 1971. Mr. Panni told a news conference later that he would ask the Philippine Government for permission to remain in Manila and start his mission. He was moving from the official residence to new quarters. He said: "I hereby disassociate myself from the present, usurper army junta of West Pakistan which claims to be the Government of Pakistan. It is totally illegitimate and absolutely barbarian. It has no mandate of the people-it has no right to call itself the Government of Pakistan." "Pakistan, as I knew it, lies buried under a mountain of corpses-ihe corpses of innocent men, women and children of Bangladesh. It lies buried under the agony of the eight million refugees whom they have pushed out into India. It lies buried under the mass plunder and rape which the West Pakistani Government are perpetrating there every day." Until Mr. Panni's resignation, the highest ranking Pakistani diplomat to go over to Bangladesh was Mr. Mahasin Ali, head of Pakistan's mission to Hong Kong. With Mr. Panni's resignation, the only Ambassador of Bengali origin left in Pakistan's diplomatic service was Mr. Kaisar in Peking. He was believed to have fallen from official favor for refusing to work for Peking's endorsement of President Yahya Khan's action in East Pakistan. He had been virtually stripped of his powers and refused permission to visit even Hong Kong.
