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SUSPENSION OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO, PAKISTAN
MAY 13, 1971.
Mr. MANSFIELD (for Mr. FULBRIGHT), from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. Con. Res. 21]
The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which was referred the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 21) calling for the suspension of military assistance to Pakistan, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that the concurrent resolution as amended do pass.'
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. Con. Res. 21, as amended, is to express the sense of the Congress that all American, military assistance and licenses for military sales to Pakistan should be suspended until the conflict ill East Pakistan is resolved and the distribution of relief supplies in that area is undertaken.
BACKGROUND
As a result of long standing differences between political factions in West and East Pakistan, the Pakistan army took control of Dacca, the, capital of East Pakistan on March 25, 1971. Although all foreign news correspondents were expelled from East Pakistan, reports received from various sources indicated that the Pakistan army was engaged in indiscriminate killing of civilians with military equipment furnished by the United States Publicly, at the, outset at least. State Department spokesmen said they were unable to confirm that U.S. military equipment was being used to kill East “Pakistanis. It was not until 1971, almost a month after the Pakistan army took control in East Pakistan that a letter was received from the Department in response to a Committee inquiry stating that reports had been received indicating that M-24 tanks and F-85 aircraft have been observed in use in East Pakistan in recent weeks"This was the first official communication on the subject which was received by the Committee on Foreign Relations. The correspondence referred to is reprinted in the appendix to this report.
U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
With very few exceptions, the types and, amounts of military assistance which the United States has furnished to the Government of Pakistan are classified. Nevertheless, it
