○ とか○ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড In his statement it is also said that the exposure which has made is substantially correct, but would be kind enough to say how much arms have so far been supplied to Pakistan even after the 25" of March when it was said by the USA that there has been an embargo placed on the supply of arms to Pakistan, because I have got in my possession information.......... MR. CHAIRMAN: You have put a number of questions. SHRI CHITTA BASU: ... that Pakistan has been buying arms and spares in the USA since March which night have already been shipped to Pakistan not only on their ships as has been pointed out here but it has already been reported that the US Air Force alone had sold to Pakistan nearly 48 million worth of goods and the Navy has also supplied arms to Pakistan. Will he be kind enough to let the House know and the countries know what has been the total amount of arms supplied by the USA to Pakistan after the 25" of March when the army cracked down on Bangladesh with its military action? SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: Sir, I would like to say that the House in on doubt aware of the history of the US supply of arms to Pakistan the embargo after the 1965 conflict and the one time exception. I will not repeat that because statement had been made at length on the floor of the House about those aspects. But after the military action in Bangladesh, the US spokesmen had said that further supply of arms to Pakistan was being stopped in view of the situation that had developed in East Pakistan Bangladesh. When I say that this is against the assurance we got the clear assurance from those statements and clear understanding that no further supplies would be made to Pakistan. Therefore when these supplies have now materialized, they are against those assurances. About we second question, I would like to say that I am not satisfied win what they have said. I have only given for the information of the house and for the information of the country the statements that have been made to us by the US representatives. And we would not like to leave any impression that the Government is satisfied with the statements. We do continue to hold the view strongly that having made a statement it was their responsibility to ensure that there were no further supplies made by the united states authorities, whether they are the local people or whoever else and we feel that apart from being a negation of the assurance this is also Something which certainly we cannot accept as any satisfactory explanation. Now when I have said that the statement is substantially correct, I have used the world substantially to cover the point that the report that appeared in the American press the New York Times, had mentioned whereas the planes the US authorities have said now that these slips did not carry the places. So whereas the statement is correct that military equipment has gone, I have used the expression substantially correct in order to show that the fact of the military equipment having been shipped from the United States to Pakistan is correct although there is some discrepancy between the press report and what the official spokesmen of US have said. SHRI CHITTA BASU: Sir, the main point was not answered whether the Government considered it a hostile or unfriendly act of the US Government towards the India
