shattered. The basic understanding behind the very functioning of the United Nations will have been demolished. A damage will have been done to the international order symbolized by the United Nations which can never be repaired.
Since it is India which, after having resorted to large-scale use of force against the territorial integrity and political independence of Pakistan in total violation of the United Nations Charter, is now talking of defending itself against Pakistan's fullscale attack, the sequence of events of the past two weeks, since 21st November, needs to be kept clearly in mind.
Pakistan's eastern province has been under a massive attack, since 21st November, by India's regular troops, tanks and aircraft. The attack was launched simultaneously at half a dozen points along three sides of India's land frontier around East Pakistan.
The Indian attack was unprovoked; it was on a large scale; it was coordinated; it was preceded by heavy artillery fire; and it was made under air cover. It was definitely not, as the Indians initially tried to maintain, only a stepping up of activity by the secessionist guerrillas. In the engagements that have taken place between the Pakistan and Indian armed forces, several of the Indian army units have been identified through Indian soldiers killed or captured.
On 21st November, the Indian armed forces launched the following attacks. On the south-eastern sector of East Pakistan, an Indian army brigade group. Supported by armed helicopters, entered the Chittagong Hill Tracts district of East Pakistan. Overran our border outposts and penetrated approximately 10 miles into our territory. To the north of this sector, another brigade group of the 23rd Indian Division supported by the rest of the Division launched an attack in the Belonia salient of the Noakhali district of East Pakistan, pushing eight miles deep into Pakistan territory. In the Brahmanbaria sub division, to the north-west of Belonia, attacks were launched by a battalion each from the 57th Indian Division against two of our border posts at tiukandpur and Saldanadi which were overrun. Further north, on the eastern front of East Pakistan, the Indians made repeated attacks against our border outposts at Karitola in Mymensingh-also known as Mominshahi district. These attacks were repulsed. In the northeast corner of East Pakistan, two Indian battalion groups attacked and overran our border outposts at Dhalai, Atgram and Zakigang in the Maulavi Bazar sub-division of the Sylhet district. These Indian forces included two companies of Gurkhas. In the north-western area of East Pakistan, the Indians launched another attack in the Rangpur district. This was in the Bhurangamari salient, where an Indian brigade group penetrated 15 miles into Pakistan territory up to Nageshwari. In the south-east sector completing the threesided front in the Jessore district, a major offensive was launched by a brigade group of the 9th Indian division supported by armour and air cover, opposite Chougacha. Indian tanks penetrated about eight miles into Pakistan territory. An Indian air attack was challenged by the Pakistan Air Force. One Indian aircraft was destroyed, and we lost two over Pakistan territory. Six Indian tanks were destroyed in the engagement, and eight of ours were disabled. The Jessore air field was shelled by Indian artillery. All these attacks were - synchronized and launched at widely separated parts of the frontier on 21st November last.
