br8と。 বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড economic, military or any other aid to Pakistan. Why should not Yahya Khan take this stand? China is supporting him. The United States Government is supporting him. Sir, there is not much time and I want to ask just one or two questions. Our borders are being violated every day both by incursions by the Pakistani army and by this new type of violation of our borders. This is also a form of aggression, because the Pakistani army is driving an entire nation before its guns and bayonets by the millions into our territory. This is not going to stop in the foreseeable future. What do they propose to do about it? How do we guard the security of our borders? That is the first question I want to ask. The Minister has gone round telling the world that if the other nations do not do something about this, we will be forced to act on our own Brave words! Please spell out now before your own Parliament whether that time to act has come or not and what you mean by this action. All this time we have been patting ourselves on the back because so many nations congratulated us for our policy of TeStra1nt. I want to say, Sir, that now after Yahya Khan's broadcast continued nonrecognition of Bangladesh as a sovereign entity amounts in practice to recognizing the authority of Yahya Khan over East Pakistan. You can continue to non-recognizes Bangladesh, but it means, in effect, before the eyes of the world that you are declaring that the authority of Islamabad over East Pakistan is recognized by us and will continue to be recognized. Are you willing to take this odium? I say, all this business of their not having any territory where their writ runs and so on and so forth is besides the point. Here is a Government which represents the elected representatives of the People of Bangladesh. That is the moral strength that we have got on our side. They won 98% of the seats in the elections. That Government even it does not have square foot of territory under its permanent stable control is nevertheless the Government which represents the elected people of the country, but you continue to recognize the military regime which has no sanction behind it and which is now being exposed by the world press everywhere. Two days ago, the Guardian, writing editorially has posed more sharply a question which our Government refuses to answer. I am quoting: "And nowhere, in all the intellectual wasteland of Yahiya’s Master Plan, is the central question asked? Does Pakistan exist any longer? Does unity matter any longer? What precisely have the Punjabi legions achieved? Too much blood, too many refugees have flowed since Mujib disappeared for Pakistan to be magically put back together again". This myth about Pakistan being one State and this being their internal affair. which is a theory peddled in many countries abroad and, therefore, we must continue to give recognition to the military regime and accept its authority in Bangla Desh is something which cannot be stomached now. I hope after Yahya Khan's broadcast there may be some shifts in the thinking of some other countries too, who were probably deluding themselves about the possibilities of political settlement I do not know. I read yesterday in papers that Dr. Karan Singh had a talk in Sophia with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria. I do not know if he has been reported correctly. He has been
