16] বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৭৮। জাতিসংঘ সাধারন পরিষদে মাহমুদ আলীর | জাতিসংঘ দলিলপত্র উদ্ধৃতিঃ ৫ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ আরেকটি বিবৃতি (অংশ) বাংলাদেশ ডকুমেন্টস EXTRACTS FROM STATEMENT OF MR. MAHMUD ALI (PAKISTAN) IN THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY OCTOBER 5, 1971 At the time of the partition of the sub-continent, we in Pakistan inherited barely one-fifth of the area and were placed at a disadvantage in many other aspects. Nevertheless, we accepted an award delimiting the boundaries of Pakistan and India, even though it was unjust to us. We envisaged the closest co-operation with our neighbor, India. Our independence was not more than two months old when India completely violated the basis of partition-the independence settlement of 1947 and sent its arms to occupy a Muslim-majority area, Jammu and issue with Pakistan, as indeed it negotiate on many other issues; but when such negotiations take place, as in this case, India prevaricates and uses various devices to avoid facing the real issue. I have mentioned these two major causes of the friction between India and Pakistan. Without this friction, and without the pervasive background of India’s constant attempts to weaken and isolate Pakistan, the present India-Pakistan situation involving a threat to the peace would be totally incomprehensible. Had Indian rules not been hostile to Pakistan, would they not find it unnatural and repugnant to try to take advantage of their neighbor’s internal difficulties? Would they not scrupulously refrain from interfering in our affairs? What is happening today on the borders of my country and our neighbor India, is not mere border skirmishes, it is armed intervention by one country, a Member of the United Nations, India, into the territory of another Member of the United Nations, Pakistan. India has been engaged for the past few months, and is engaged now, in a clandestine war on Pakistan. At a time when, regardless of the nature of the military action taken by the Pakistan Government in its own territory India could have no conceivable fear of invasion, it has concentrated a large number of its forces, some 2000,000, and its machines of destruction of the borders of East and West Pakistan. In has been engaging shelling and mortar fire against East Pakistan. It regularly sends its own armed personnel into my country to cause death and destruction. It harbours, trains, finances, equips and encourages-some even forces—the dissidents to undertake acts of sabotage and to cripple te economy of East Pakistan. In short, India is at the moment carrying out acts of war against my country, and the only reason why the situation has not been escalated is that the Government of Pakistan has exercised the utmost restraint. The resort to shelling, mortar-firing and other warlike actions against Pakistan have become a regular feature of the tension build up by Indian armed forces along our borders.
