role in encouraging, assisting initiation and at times executing acts of rebellion and sabotage which have amongst other things made the movement of food-grains from places of storage in East Pakistan to places where it is needed so filled with obstacles and - difficulties.
This food shortage in itself would have been sufficient to cause movements of people seeking to escape starvation, but panic-stricken flight was also the result of Indian radio accounts of what was going on against which the efforts of the Pakistan radio were only partly successful in reassuring all citizens, Muslim and Hindu, of East Pakistan that normal conditions were returning and that the authorities were sparing no effort in this regard.
It might be held by an impartial outside observer that the truth about the responsibility for the refugees is next to impossible to ascertain. But sometimes the truth of facts can be deduced with almost near-certainty by a study of the motives and past conduct of the parties.
Clearly the Pakistan authorities have everything to gain by the restoration of normal, peaceful life in East Pakistan as possible. On the other hand, the past conduct of India during the last few months shows once again that India considers that a breakdown of central authority in East Pakistan suits her long range objectives.
V. ΙΝDΙΑS ΑΟΤΙΟΝS-ΑΤΗRΕΑΤΤΟ
SOUTH ASIAN STABILITY
Indeed, it is precisely India's long-range objectives that threaten the stability of the re south Asian region (and perhaps of much else).
The delusion that Pakistan's creation can be undone continues to dominate all long-range Indian planning, whether it concerns the Kashmir dispute, the construction of the Farakka Barrage, the periodical pogroms of Muslims in India, the attempt to isolate the two wings by banning over-flights; the endless succession of pin-pricks and provocations, large and small and now the intervention in East Pakistan regardless of all canons of international law and conduct, and its repercussions.
Is it too much to hope that India can be made to realize that Pakistan has come to stay?—that it is only by the two countries living as neighbors, on terms of independent equality and mutual respect, that an enduring peace can be found?
The only convincing evidence of this will be a new approach by India to the long standing disputes between the two countries-no longer looking at these problems as weapons in the struggle to eventually undo Pakistan and reabsorb it stage by stage and piece by piece, but instead looking at these problems as problems that must be equitably solved on a permanent basis in the best interests of both countries and recognizing these
