India's conduct in the recent crisis in East Pakistan provide dramatic and conclusive evidence about Indian's incurable obsession to destroy Pakistan and establish a greater Hindu India-Akhand Bharat-in which the first stage was to be the encouraging and assisting of a puppet secessionist regime in East Pakistan, to be absorbed by India at its convenience
A great deal of long-range planning had gone into this by such people as Mr. Subrarnaniam and in the early week of 1971, the process moved from planning to execution. A propaganda barrage and the encouraging of subversion brought forth the series of protest notes of the Pakistan Government in early March.
Indian Calculations
The breakdown of lawful authority and the emergence of mob-rule in the streets was followed by the pronouncement of India's leaders and parties-all calculated to disrupt communications and make it impossible normal government to be restored: to create bad blood between Bengali and non-Bengali; to intimidate into acquiescence the silent majority of Jaw abiding Pakistani citizens of the East Wing
The Indian leadership appears to have calculated that success was within their grasp and that the last minute decision of the Pakistan army to restore normal authority was bound to fail. As a result the crescendo of India's efforts continued to rise in late March and well into April. The Indian Radio and Press contained long accounts of the victorious Exploits of the secessionist military forces, of the rout of Pakistan forces and hair-raising accounts of what was going on.
In this, it is a matter of the deepest regrets that there were foreign newspapers quick to accept as gospel truth the Indian version of events.
Meantime, Pakistan's efforts were concentrated on restoring conditions of normalcy as early as possible, ensuring that the economic life of the province was not brought to a suicidal standstill, and in thwarting the attempts of the retreating secessionists and interventionists to leave behind them a'Scorched earth" and desolation.
By late April, it must have become clear to the Indian authorities that the attempt to undo Pakistan had failed, because their radio and press took on a new line. The gloating accounts of how the West Pakistan “imperialists and, colonialists and oppressors" had been utterly routed and humbled were now replaced by tearful accounts of the sufferings of refugees and of starvation.
There can be no doubt that there has been human suffering during the last few months in East Pakistan.
The question to be answered, however, is how did this take place and who caused it, and there can be little doubt that it is a direct result of India's continuing interventionist
