ANNEX ‘A’
On a proposal made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the President was pleased to nominate Mr. Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, a Judge in the East Pakistan High Court, also at the time a Vice Chancellor of the Dacca University to represent Pakistan at the twenty seventh Session of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights held at Geneva in Switzerland from the 22 February to the 26th March 1971.
2. On his request, the Judge was granted by the Governor. Last Pakistan, leave ex-Pakistan from the 27th March to the 16th April 1971, which has long expired, but has, without any excuse, not so far returned to Pakistan to resume his duties, although he was in a position so to do.
3. After the conclusion of the proceedings of the Commission, the Judge left for London, apparently to see his son who is a student there. According to a news-story appearing in the Sunday Telegraph of London published on the 18th April 1971, based upon an interview given to a representative of that newspaper, the Judge made statements, attributing barbaric atrocitics to the Pakistan Army which went into action on the 25th March 1971 to quill large-scale disturbances in East Pakistan. He is also alleged to have stated that it was impossible for him to go back to the High Court in a country where there was no rule of law. A copy of the news-story appeared in the aforesaid issue of Sunday Telegraph.
4. On June 13, 1971, the Judge also gave an interview over the London Television wherein he held himself out as “a national” and “official representative of Bangle Desh” in that country, which according to him was established in Mujib Nagar and which he hoped would be formally recognized “in the near future”. In the course of interview, the Judge referred to the Government of Pakistan as “the Government of murderers” and stated that he subscribed to the view, appearing earlier in the London Times that “Mohammad Ali Jinnah's Pakistan is dead”. In answer to another question that he wished India to attack Pakistan because of the situation created in East Pakistan by the “Army Junta of Yahya Khan”.
5. The Judge also made statement in similar view in the course of a talk on the 8th June 1971 at the London Headquarters of the Royal Commonwealth Society, the transcript of which appeared in the “Commonwealth Society’s Journal” in its issue of August 1971.
6. On June 3, the Judge also addressed a meeting at De-Vera Hotel, Hyde Park Gate, London, W-8, thanking Mr. jay Parkash Narain who was the guest-speaker for his support of “Bangla Desh”. In a speech, the Judge again referred to the alleged atrocities perpetrated on the soil of Bangla Desh by the Pakistan Government.
7. The Judge also visited the United States and led demonstration in favor of Bangla Desh in New York on the 12th June, 1971.
