895 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ জাতিসংঘ সাধারণ পরিষদে মিঃ আগাশাহীর জাতিসংঘ ডকুমেন্টস ১৩ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ ববৃ \S) (পাকিস্তান) STATEMENT BY MR. AGHA SIIAHI (PAKISTAN) IN THE U. N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY October 13,1971 During the general debate, my Delegation has stressed several times that we are not here to match arguments and score debating points. We regard the present IndiaPakistan situation as too serious, and the imperative of peace too compelling to allow us exercises in debate. The reply just made by the Representative of India to what I said yesterday, contains several misstatements and repetition of old charges which we have already refuted. No one in the Assembly, I am sure, enjoys a series of replies and counter replies which fail to advance the cause of peace, or to bring about a clearer understanding of a situation which involves a threat to peace. Nevertheless, in view of the earlier intervention of the Representative of India, I am duty bound to my Government to make a reasoned and dispassionate presentation to correct the picture that he has painted. First of all, the Representative of India seemed to be aggrieved that I exercised my right of reply yesterday, that is seven days after his-the Indian-statement of allegation against us. I should like to assure him that we always believe in taking a pause and reflecting on any charges that may be made, so that we do not make impassioned replies, that we do not generate heat, but serve to enlighten this General Assembly. It is for that reason that we thought we should make a considered reply rather than the type of statement that we heard, a moment ago from the Representative of India. I was also greatly surprised when the Representative of India said that the points that had been made by me in the India-Pakistan exchanges were demolished by the Representative of Afghanistan. I am loath to finer from this that there has been any collusion between India and Afghanistan. We have heard for the umpteenth time that the Government of India does not wish to interfere in the internal affairs of Pakistan, and yet the Representative of India launched into a veritable tirade over the internal development of Pakistan. He quoted certain political leaders of Pakistan about the nature of the Constitution or the political plan that has been put forward by President Yahya Khan. Is comment of the internal constitutional development of a country not within the exclusive domestic jurisdiction of a State? While he quotes from the Pakistan press about what the political leaders of Pakistan have to say in exercise of the free expression of opinion which obtains in my country, yet he does not give credit to my Government that these critical opinions about the Government-which are not only critical, but very strongly critical-are in fact published. He still derides the situation in my country and states that we do not know that this is all they have said
