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PAKISTAN SAYS INDIA CREATES ATMOSPHERE OF CONFRONTATION
Karachi, May 3, (NYT)- Pakistan accused India today of ‘creating an atmosphere of confrontation’ and said Indian border units had shelled Pakistani positions.
* International Herald Tribune, May 8-9, 1971
EAST PAKISTAN MILITARY CHIEF DENIES SLAUGHTER OCCURRED
Dacca, East Pakistan, May 7 (NYT)- Gen Tikka Khan, the military governor of East Pakistan, said today that his staff had estimated that 150 persons were killed in Dacca on the night of March 25, when the army moved to reassert control over the province.
The General speaking at a reception, said that other estimates of the number of people killed, ranging up to 10,000 were wildly exaggerated.
* International Herald Tribune, May 19, 1971
MRS. GANDHI LAMENTS LACK OF AID FOR PAKISTAN REFUGEES
New Delhi, May 18 (AP)- Prime Minister Indira Gandhi complained today that “no prosperous country” or any of the “upholders of democracy has tried to help the nearly three million East Pakistani refugees now in India.
* International Herald Tribune, May 22-23, 1971
DEATH IN ‘GOLDEN BANGLADESH’
Firm figures of massacre in East Pakistan, as anywhere, are hard to verify. Some say thousands, others insist on two hundred thousand. Probably 50,000 is a conservative estimate. Numbers of refugees are more obtainable: 650,000 in four Indian states on May 1.
* The Weekly Economist, May 29, 1971
HOW NOT TO FACE FACTS
President Yahya needs to acknowledge realities, Mrs. Gandhi needs to maintain her cool, and the rest of us should be more helpful.
It is a standard practice of governments, especially those which are fighting wars, to putout self-justifying propaganda. This propaganda may fail to convince, which is troublesome. Or it may convince so well that the propagandists themselves are taken in, which is positively dangerous. The Government of Pakistan has clearly dug itself a credibility gap. The question now is whether it has also buried its head in the sand.
* International Herald Tribune, May 29-30, 1971
REBELS CALLED STILL ACTIVE IN EAST PAKISTAN CLASHES WITH ARMY TERRORISM REPORTED
New Delhi, May 28 (NYT)- Despite official descriptions of normality in East Pakistan, guerrilla activity and the army crackdown continue, according to reports from the area.
The foreign informants report that the Pakistani Army has been able to widen its control of vital installations and major towns and cities. But they say that guerrilla and terrorist activity by Bengali insurgents-but tressed by Bengali noncooperation in general– has prevented the army from establishing an effective civil administration in most of East Pakistan.
* International Herald Tribune, May 31, 1971
CHOLERA OUTBREAK REPORTED : INDIA PUTS PAKISTANI REFUGEES AT 4 MILLION
New Delhi, May 30 (Reuters)- Indian announced today that more than four million East Pakistanis have fled into its territory since the Martial-Law crackdown in their province.
Reports have said living conditions in overcrowded temporary border camps have led to 300 deaths from cholera and gastroenteritis.
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