583 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ West Pakistan Scene Bangladesh News letter 7 July, 1971 London : No. 8 Consequences of waging a colonial war will ruin the economy of West Pakistan and lead to its disintegration. Only by overthrowing, the Military Dictatorship such a course can be averted. Indication of growing restlessness is available in the report on the WEST PAKISTAN SCENE. From our special correspondent (KARACHI) The West Pakistanis have had three bombshells within a week. The first was the decision of the major aid-giving nations led by the World Bank to postpone indefinitely any new economic assistance to Pakistan. The ruling, junta does not show any visible disappointment and the controlled Press has been inspired to abuse and accuse these powers who have been sustaining Pakistan for the last 23 years. But the intelligentsia, the big business, the men of trade and commerce and the general public are stunned. They know what it is going to mean to them in the long run. For the first time West Pakistan’s economy is really paralyzed. The second bombshell was the “Budget”. As usual it has been hailed. The Ministry of National Guidance and Home Affairs has seen to it. The rich has been taxed heavily-that is what we have been told-but what has been taken from the one hand has been given back to them from the other. The 22 families’ corporation has seen to it the real burden should be carried by the consumer and the working classes, every ounce of their sweat and blood would now be squeezed from them and fed into the coffers of the capitalist controllers of our destiny, if we have any. Everything has gone up, Sugar, salt, flour, pulses, meat, vegetables, oils kerosene oil, petrol, matches, cigarettes, textiles, literally everything. Now is the time for Bhutto to show the way “to eat grass for 1,000 years” as he had predicted not long ago. But he is silent, speechless for a change. Not a word has come out of his mouth so far. And how strange that all of the swan-song politicians of the Muslim League, Jamaat-e-Islami, etc. etc. without exception, who have been calling Yahya Khan everything but God himself, have also kept mum. The third bombshell was Yahya's “statement of policy to the Nation”. One wonders which of the sergeant-majors was really speaking in Yahya's puppet image. Except the MULLAHS and the controlled Press, no one has uttered a word either for or against. The politicians can now see how correct was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman when he had warned them that (‘today the Army rulers are going to crush me tomorrow will be your turn” Democracy is trampled to dust by the Generals' boots. The “Revolutionary Councils’ which started to rule the Islamic body’s politic under ‘Martial Laws' from its very inception till now perpetually rule over the Islamic Republic. Bhutto knows now that he and his Party, if anything of it remains in four months' time, met their Waterloo. They have been outfoxed. He can perhaps survive if he decided to serve the new masters as he had served under Ayub and his gang for ten years. So far neither he nor any other politician has said a word. The patriarchs of the 22 families have seen to it that his wing has been clipped. He can no longer ride his ‘white horse’ over the horizon. Soon there will be no one even to mourn the poor IT181I1.
