বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড)/৮০
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| ‘লেট পাকিস্তান স্পীক ফর হারসেলফ’ | ভারতের তথ্য ও বেতার মন্ত্রণালয় প্রকাশিত পুস্তিকা | ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ |
LET PAKISTAN SPEAK FOR HERSELF
NOW 000
In ten days I might not the here in Rawalpindi, I will be off fighting a war.
(president Yahya Khan, reported by A.P. Nov. 25, 1971)
I will not meet Mrs. Gandhi, She doesn’t like my gust. But that doesn’t bother me because she is neither a woman nor a statesman by wanting to be both.
She does not have qualities of her father. If I have to meet her, I will say-shut up woman. Leave me alone.
(Interview with President Yahya Khan, Published in Le Figaro Paris, sept. 1,1971)
The people did not bring me to power. I came myself.
(President Yahya Khan at a press conference, reported in time magazine, aug. 2,1971.)
It is time for Jehad and not for party politics or transfer of power.
Maulvi Faird Ahmed, vice-President, Pakistan Democratic party. Pakistan Times, Lahore, May, 12. 1971.)
It is an exercise in futility to bring India to the right path through protests and warnings. She understands the language of force only and Pakistan should now follow only that course.
(Kohistan, Lahore. Aug. 6. 1971.)
Our army is fully prepared and now we do not need any notice for waging war.
(Big. Mohammad Yusuf, Deputy sub-Martial Law administrator, Jang, Karachi, sept. 10,1971.)
War with India would be the final one between the two nations and shall be fought on the basis of religion.
(sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, President, Government of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Dawn, Karachi, sept. 19, 1971.)
The Pakistan Government should get the nation ready for jehad against India
(Chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party in Sindh Province, reported in jang, Karichi, sept. 29, 1971.)
It is in Pakistan’s own interest to have a direct armed confrontation to teach her neighbor the lesson which she seems to have forgotten so soon after the 1965 war.
(Maulana Mufti Mahmood. Secretary-General of Jamaat-e-Islam. party, reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore. Aug. 30. 1971.)
Crush India. we will be victorious.
(A sticker on vehicles in Karachi, Jang, Karachi, Oct. 8, 1971.)
The Muslim of the sub-continent have been at war with the hindus of India for over 1000 years and this confrontation will continue until our disputes with India are solved.
(Mr. Z.A. Bhutto reported in Pakistan Times. Lahore, Dec.21, 1971.)
The people of Gilgit and Baltistan are on strike since March 1 to protest against what is described as the reign of terror let loose by the administration... It is said that the administration has ruthlessly suppressed political activity and denied the residents their civil liberties.
(Pakistan Observer, March 7, 1971.)
There is need to reactivate the Kashmir issue at the people’s level. Emancipation cannot be achieved on table. Determined people had always snatched it through sacrifices.
(Sardar abdul Qayyum Khan, President, Government of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Dawn Karachi, May 12, 1971.)
Without joining jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan it has become difficult or us to live peacefully.
(Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, President, Government of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Pakistan Times Lahore, Aug. 31, 1971.)
Mr. K.H. Khurshid, President of J & K Liberation League (Proved up by Pakistan), declared that the responsibility for curbing and denuding the Azad Kashmir Government of all power play with the Government of Pakistan. As a first measure, it was essential to reorganise the Azad Kashmir government.
(Pakistan Times, Lahore, jan. 9, 1971.)
The General secretary of the Pakistan Christian Democratic Council Mr. N. Patras, along with an 85-year old man, Baba Samuel, went on hunger strike on Monday to protest against the alleged disrespect shown to churches in some districts of Punjab.
Mr. Patras told newsmen that the violent demonstrations going on in the country for some time past, against the publication of the book ‘Turkish Art of Love in Pictures’ has been diverted against the Christians in the country for some time past and their holy places were being attacked.
(Pakistan Times, Lahore, jan 19, 1971.)
Mr. Abdul Hafiz Kardar, Member-elect of the Punjab Assembly and a former Pakistan cricket captain, has urged the government to instruct the Pakistan Hockey Federation not to invite India to the World Cup Hockey Tournament being held here (Lahore) in February.
He was speaking at a reception hosted by the sportsmen of Punjab at the Y.M.C.A. Hall. Mr. Kardar said that confrontation with India at all levels was a major foreign policy plank in the manifesto of the Pakistan People’s Party, and the visit of the India team to Pakistan would militate against the people’s mandate to his party in the recent elections.
(Morning News, Dacca. Dec, 30, 1970.)
After having talks for a few minutes with the hijackers (who had hijacked the Indian Airlines plane to Lahore), Mr. Bhutto said, ‘We are with you’.
(Pakistan Times, Lahore, Feb 1 1971.)
Mohammad Ashraf, one of the two hijackers, told newsmen who went to Lahore airport that the Pakistan People’s Chairman, Mr. Z.A. Bhutto, had advised them to leave everything to him.
Mr. Bhutto had gone to see the hijackers immediately after his return from Dacca.
(Pakistan Observer, Feb, 1 1971.)
In an airport interview, Mr. Bhutto said he had instructed his party men in Lahore to establish contact with the Jammu and Kashmir national Liberation front (propped up by Pakistan) in order to assist the two brave hijackers in every possible way. Mr. Bhutto praised the velour of the two youthful hijackers.
(Dawn, Karachi, Feb, 4, 1971)
The Awami League Chief, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, deplored the blowing up of the hijacked Indian plane at Lahore and urged the government to hold an enquiry into the matter and to take effective measures to prevent interested quarters from exploiting this situation for her nefarious ends.
(Morning News, Dacca. Feb, 4, 1971.)
I have prepared a list of all those journalists who have tried to malign my party (during the elections) and all of them will be fixed up.
(Mr. Z.A. Bhutto. reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore, dec. 21. 1970.)
The Pakistan People’s Party had won majority in Provincial Assemblies of Punjab and Sindh. The real power of the Centre lay in these two Provinces, No government at the Centre, therefore, could be run without the PPP’s cooperation?
(Mr. Z..A. Bhutto. reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore, dec. 21, 1970.)
Punjab and Sindh can no longer aspire to be the bastions of power. The democratic struggle of the people is aimed against such ‘bastions of power’.
(Mr. Tajuddin Ahmad (now Prime Minister of Bangladesh), Dawn, Karachi, Dec. 22, 1970).
Attempts were even made to cruelly regiment the society so that the Bengali culture could no longer flourish. Even some of the music which indeed spoke the language of heart was totally banned. In the name of Islam, the most popular Tagore songs were not broadcasted by radio or television. It was a part of the planned machination to reduce the people of East Pakistan to the status of third class citizens.
(Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore, Jan, 1, 1971)
Pakistan is a Muslim country and here on secular of communist constitution can work.
(Maulana Syed Abdul Ali Maudoodi, Chief of the Jammat-i-Islami Party, Dawn, Karachi, Jan. 4, 1971.)
Speaking to newsmen in Dacca, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman observed that the Awami League had the absolute majority not only in Bangladesh, but in the whole country. It was in a position to frame the Constitution. But his party would seek cooperation from Mr. Bhutto and others.
(Pakistan Observer, Jan. 30, 1971.)
The Awami League Chief, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has dismissed as utterly false, the allegation that his party was seeking to impose the six point scheme upon west Pakistan.
He said that if the federating units of West Pakistan did not wish to have precisely the same degree of autonomy as Bangladesh or wished to cede certain additional powers to the Centre of to establish certain regional institutions, the six-point formula does not at all stand in their way.
The Awami League Chief said that his party had never taken the position that the six-points would be imposed on the federating units of West Pakistan.
(Dawn, Karachi, Feb, 25, 1971.)
Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, has demanded Postponement of the national Assembly session. He has said that the PPP would launch a great movement if the national Assembly session was held in the absence of 85 members of his party. Mr. Bhutto said the PPP expected the people of Pakistan to take full revenge on the people who might choose to attend the Assembly session, on their return from Dacca. If the people failed to take the revenge, the PPP itself would take action against them. He said if any member of his party attended the session, the party workers would liquidate him.
(Dawn, Karachi, March, 1, 1971.)
Mr. Nurul Amin, President of the Pakistan Democratic Party, said in a statement that he was stunned at the sudden announcement of the postponement of the sitting of the National Assembly indefinitely
(Dawn, Karachi, March, 2, 1971.)
Mr. Ali Ahad, General secretary, Bengal National League (Ahad Group), in a Statement said: ‘The dramatic announcement of the postponement of the National Assembly session is a prelude to sabotaging the restoration of the sovereignty of the people and the transfer of power to the representatives of the people.
(Dawn, Karachi, March, 1, 1871.)
Air Marshal (Retd.) Nur Khan has accused certain advisers of the President and some bureaucrats of having asked certain political parties not to attend the National Assembly session. Bureaucracy has ruled the country. It is afraid of people’s rule. So the word ‘democratic government’ sounds like death knell to the bureaucrats. They found Mr. Bhutto as a tool to serve them. Mr. Bhutto has a singular ambition of coming into power. The bureaucrats found in him a sycophant who was prepared to see the country disintegrated, so that he could hold his away over the west wing all alone.
(Jasarat, Karachi, March 7, 1971.)
Prominent intellectuals, journalists, political, social, cultural and trade union and student body workers have called for an immediate transfer of power to the elected representatives of the people.
In a joint statement, they expressed grave concern over the political situation obtaining in Pakistan.
They felt that by remaining peaceful the East Pakistan people had given practical proof of the fact that they stood for national solidarity and integrity like their compatriots from the west wing.
(Dawn, Karachi, March 10, 1971.)
Main Mumtaz Mohammad Khan Daultana, Chief of the Council Muslim League, has observed that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s demands are quite reasonable and should be accepted to end present political crisis in Pakistan.
(Dawn, Karachi, March 14, 1971.)
Malik Hamid Sarfraz, General Secretary of the Punjab Awami League has said that Mr. Z.A. Bhutto has created an unhealthy atmosphere in the country’s politics as he apprehended his inability to fulfill his promises to the people. He has also said that the administration in the eastern wing is running under the orders of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and if at all he had any inclination towards separation he could have carried it out easily. But it has become crystal clear that it is Mr. Bhutto and not Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who thought of secession.
(Dawn, Karachi, March, 17, 1971.)
President Yahya Khan held talks with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to resolve the constitutional crisis in the country.
When correspondents congratulated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his birthday, the Awami League Chief said, ‘What is my birth day? What is my death day? I am with my people. There is no security of my people. They are dying.
(Pakistan Times, Lahore, March 18, 1971.)
The Baluchistan Branch of the Pakistan National Awami Party (Wali group) has demanded at a meeting that power be transferred to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Martial Law lifted forthwith. The Meeting also strongly opposed Mr. Bhutto’s proposal to make the minority party share in the transfer of power by setting up two parallel Government in the country.
(Dawn, Karachi, March, 19, 1971.)
(Regarding U.N. Secretary-General, U. Thant’s expression of his grave concern over Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s trail):
U Thant’s reactions to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s trial are tantamount to an interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan... It is an insult to humanity itself to plead the case of a traitor in the name of humanity.
(Mashriq, Karachi, Aug. 18, 1971.)
The people of Pakistan can never excuse U. Thant for his uncalled for interference in the internal affairs of the country.
Kohistan, Lahore, Aug. 18, 1971.
The Pakistan Government is to be blamed for having delayed the execution of Sheik Mujibur Rahman and given time to the world powers to intervene... The Government should have followed the examples of Morocco, Sudan and Egypt where The traitors were executed without any delay.
(Nawai waqt, Lahore, Aug, 16, 1971.)
The Pakistan Government should release immediately all political prisoners. Government should lift restrictions on the political leaders, withdraw warrants that many people have been put behind the bars without trial simply because of having a different view-point on various vital political and economic issues facing the country.
(Mir Ghaus Bux Bizenjo, President, Bluchistan National Awami Party (Wali Gorup), reported in Dawn, Karachi, Sept. 30, 1971.)
...AND EARLIER
‘Two nations, Mr. Jinnah! Confronting each other in every province? Every town? Every village’?
‘Two nations, Confronting each other in every province. Every town. Every village. That is the only solution’.
“That is a very terrible solution, Mr. Jinnah.”
“It is a terrible solution. But it is the only one.”
(Mr. M.A Jinnah in an interview with Edward Thompson, quoted In Enlist Indian for Freedom, London, 1740, p.52.)
Pakistan can only be achieved by shedding blood, and if the opportunity arises, the blood of non-Muslims must be shed, for Muslims are no believers in ahimsa (non-violence).
(Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, July 30, 1946.)
Pakistan in under an obligation, international or otherwise, that prevents her from sending her troops to Kashmir.
(Sir Mahammed Zafarullah Khan. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, in Karachi, Sept. 8, 1948.)
Addressing a cheering crowd, lakhs in number, from the window of the Press Room in the Prime Minister’s House, Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan, declared: ‘From today onwards our symbol in this, and he held his clenched fist out of the window.
(Report in Dawn, Karachi, July. 28, 1951.)
If the U.N. proves to be a band of thieves, we will have nothing to do with it. We will prove that we can liberate Kashmir with the strength of our arms.
(Mian Mumtaz Daultana, Chief Minister of Punjab, reported in Zamindar, Lahore, Jan. 17, 1952.)
If we have to get Kashmir, we will get it with the force of our arm.
(Mian Mumtaz Daultana, Chief Minister of Punjab, reported in Ehsan, Lahore, Sept. 1, 1952)
If we want to live according to the dictates of Islam and mould ourselves in the true Islamic pattern we will have to test our enemies with the might of our sword ... I warn Nehru that if he does not change his attitude, Pakistanis will not hesitate to march to Delhi and teach a lesson to the Indians.
(Mr. A.M. Quraishi, Member of the Legislative Assembly of West Pakistan, reported in Mussalman, Karachi, March 8, 1956.)
They (India and Mr. Nehru) can only be answered by conquering Kashmir with the help of the U.S., U.K. and the SEATO and Bangladesh Pacts...
(Nai Roshni Karachi, April 1, 1956.)
We should stop negotiations with India and prepare for the final settlement. The final settlement can only come through war. God is with us.
(Pri Elahi Baksh, former Chief Minister of Sind, reported in Nai Poshni, Karachi, April 16, 1965)
We are prepared to sign defense pacts, both offensive and defensive, with any country which is prepared to help us against our one enemy-India.
(Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, President, Muslim League, in Lahore, Nov. 26,1956)
...We want them (Britain in the Baghdad Pact) for our defense purposes..... Our first duty is to strengthen our defense, Particularly against India no Matter what others might say.
(Malik Firoz Khan Noor, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore, Dec. 8, 1956)
We are very gravely apprehensive of communistic domination, infiltration and aggression. We desire to keep ourselves as far away as we can from coming under their influence... Peace in the world is really in the hands of the free democracies.
(Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan, at a press conference in Los Angeles, reported in civil and Military Gazette. Lahore, July 17, 1957)
It is difficult to believe that a Prime Minister of Pakistan can stand up in Parliament and say, that for eleven years we have given nothing but threats of war to India to settle the Kashmir dispute. And yet Mr. Noon did it on Monday.
(Leader, Karachi, Sept. 3, 1958)
Man still continues to be the first and most effective weapon of war and Pakistan being the best fighting force can challenge thrown by India or western countries to preserve and protect their freedom.
(Chaudhury Ghulam Abbas, President, jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, reported in Dawn, Karachi, Dec.22, 1962)
It has become a Practice with the unpopular government of Pakistan for always to dub the popular democratic forces of the country, as Indian agents.
(Sangbad, Dacca, Dcc. 8, 1964)
For some time now, the rulers are not depending simply on police excesses to crush the democratic upsurge of the vast masses against autocratic rule, but following in the footsteps of Hitler and Mussolini have let loose a band of hired hooligans on the innocent unarmed countrymen.
(The Daily Ittefaq, Dacca, Dec. 10, 1964)
After capturing power in 1958, Ayub Khan proposed to India a joint defense pact against the danger from the North. Later that danger vanished, as if by magic, and overnight the North became friendly and side by side a relentless Jehad of antiIndia utterances was launched. As usual, a huc and cry was raised about Kashmir. It looks as though the rulers of Pakistan have made up their mind to stir up some trouble against India.
(‘Bhimrool’ in the Daily Ittefaq, Dacca, Dec. 13, 1964.)
To frustrate the Indian move to merge Kashmir with the Indian Union, More than one thousand freedom fighters will cross the cease-fire line after Id.
(Mashriq, Lahore, Jan. 29,1965.)
Jehad is the only answer to merger moves; Pakistan should quit U.N.
(Jang, Karachi, Feb. 1, 1965.)
We are not afraid of war and we will not hesitate to go to war when the time comes.
(Dawn, Karachi, March 11, 1965)
Let us prepare for war, a Jehad.
(Dawn, Karachi, March 22, 1965.)
I request our soldier President to hit now, as protests will not do.
(Dawn, Karachi, March 23,1965.)
The corrupt political system imposed on the country cannot be compared with democracy.
(The Daily Ittefaq, Dacca, March 23, 1965.)
The 1956 democratic constitution has been set aside. The people have been deprived of all fundamental and democratic rights. Even adult franchise, which had prevailed even under foreign rule and by which Pakistan had been established, has been taken away from the people. Economic emancipation of the masses is today a distant dream. Today’s Governments have given unrequited opportunity to a handful of millionaires and capitalists to pile up their profits in contrast to the extreme poverty and bankruptcy of 10 crores of people. A few vested interests are the sole beneficiaries of our industrial and economic development. Hunger and poverty of millions of people on the one side, and prosperity and riches of a handful of people on the other this is the portrait of Pakistan today.
(Sangbad Dacca, March 23, 1965.)
We are bitterly against those whose vision is clouded by the instinct of self-preservation and to them any means, moral or immoral, is good if it can serve their personal ends, the objective being self-interest rather than the interest of the country.
(Miss Fatima Jinnah’s Idmessage, Published in Dawn, Karachi, April 13, 1965.)
Jehad is the only way to solve the Kashmir problem.
(Pakistan Times, Lahore, April 28, 1965.)
When the fight in the Rann was on, India’s only aircraft Vikrant, and several tankers had to run away in the Arabian Ocean at the sight of the single submarine of Pakistan.
(Jang, Karachi, May 3,1965.)
Thousands of Razakars are ready to break the cease-fire line and march into Kashmir to the rescue of their brothers.
(Sardar Rahmatullah, State councilor, reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore, May 17, 1965.)
The Pakistan Government should renounce her obligations in regard to the cease-fire line and give a free hand to Kashmir’s in reorganizing themselves for launching a full-fledged Jehad.
(Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, reported in Dawn, Karachi, May 25, 1965.)
The fact that during the last seven years or so we have not been able to give the people even a simple election to choose a representative Government of their own is hardly a good testimony of our work. Key positions excepting in two departments are entirely manned by non-Kashmiris. It is no use glossing over the unpalatable fact that during our stay in Azad Kashmir we have made ourselves thoroughly unpopular.
(Civil and military Gazzette, Lahore, june 5, 1965.)
We will consider it a great fortune to receive Chinese support in meeting any Conspiracy of India.
(Azad, Dacca, June 6, 1965.)
Today there is disparity not only in the economic sphere, but also in the administrative services, in executive power and the legislative field, because any legislation is subject to the veto the President. There is great disparity in the defence services... The East Pakistanis are not anybody’s chicken-feed, and do not intend to be. Policy in many spheres is being laid down without the opinion an interests of this province being consciously and strongly kept in view.. All these would not have meant much if we had a genuine parliamentary democratic system where the responsibility for ultimate policy-making would be of a cabinet, responsible to a sovereign Parliament.
(Mr. Nurul Amin, in the East Pakistan Assembly, Pakistan Observer, Dacca, July 6, 1965.)
(Pakistan Times, Lahore, July 11, 1965, reporting the proceeding of the National Assembly.)
The exploitation of East Pakistan by West Pakistan can be Judged from the fact that one can see West Pakistan Officials in every village of East Pakistan.
(Mr. A.M. Kamaruzzaman speaking in the National Assembly Pakistan times, Lahore, july 20, 1965.)
India is trying to convince the world that the weapons used by the freedom fighters could have come only from Pakistan. It is foolish to believe that any popular resistance against alien rule can remain long without arms in the world of today.
(Pakistan Times, Lahore, Aug, 17, 1965.)
Kashmiri’s are not a party to the cease-fire agreement and it is within their right to cross the cease-fire line.
(Dawn. Karachi, Aug. 22, 1965.)