বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ২০। স্বাধীন বাংলা বেতার কেন্দ্র থেকে প্রচারিত | স্বাধীন বাংলা বেতার জুন-সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ ইংরেজী অনুষ্ঠানঃ নিউজ কমেন্টারি কেন্দ্রের দলিল পত্র NEWS COMMENTARY ১৯ জুন, ১৯৭১ With the postponement of the forthcoming meeting of the Aid-to-Pakistan Consortium of World Bank begins a new phase in the international response to the genocidal war in Bangladesh-formerly the majority wing of Pakistan. The postponement is particularly significant because this is for the first time in the 86-day old war between the people of Bangladesh and the Pakistani military junta that the big aid-giving powers including USA and Britain have spoken in silent but real terms about their dislike of what is happening in the East. After all, the Consortium is not a charitable organisation. It grants interest-carrying loans only when it feels that the recipient country can guarantee the safety of both principal and interest. It does not require an expert to see that the genocidal war has made Pakistan totally bankrupt. Although the Newsweek has quoted a very low price for Pakistani rupees at the international money market, the reality is that Pakistani rupees is not saleable at all. Eye-witness reports from such open money markets as Beirut, Hong Kong and Bangkok indicate that buyers would not even touch Pakistani rupee let alone naming a price however low. Pakistan is trying to find a temporary relief by borrowing from rich Arab sheikhdoms. But they, too, are business men and are not likely to prove too eager to throw large amounts of gold down the one-way drains of Pakistan's dwindling economy. The World Bank team that visited Bangladesh last week quickly saw through the carefully fabricated veil of deception put up for them by Yahya's henchmen. According to its report, widespread famine is just round the corner in Bangladesh. Peter Cargil, Chairman of the World Bank Aid-Pakistan Consortium, has talked only about possible increased food, aid prior to his departure from Karachi. Through the diplomatic euphemisms of his comments it has become clear that the World Bank wants Pakistan to find a political solution of the problem in the East before further economic aid can be considered with seriousness, Almost simultaneously comes a similar statement from William Rogers, US Secretary of State, He, too, has stressed upon a political settlement of the war in Bangladesh for what he termed as lasting peace in the sub-continent. France, Canada and Japan-three other members of the Aid Pakistan club are presumably thinking on the same line, ইংরেজী সংবাদ ভাষ্যগুলি আহমেদ চৌধুরী’ ছদ্মনামে আলমগীর কবীর রচিত।
