HINDUSTAN STANDARD, MAY 22, 1971
PAK BUILD-UP ALONG KARIMGANJ BORDER
Shillong, May 21.- The Assam Chief Minister Mr. Mahendra Mohan Choudhury is likely to discuss with the Union Defense Minister Mr. Jagjivan Ram at Karimganj tomorrow the question of overall security of the Assam-East Bengal border in the light of Pakistani build-up in the Karimganj sector reports PTI.
The Chief Minister told the State Legislative Assembly today that Pakistani troops had come close to the Assam border in this sector.
Replying to a discussion raised on the subject the Chief Minister told the House that this Government was aware of the Pakistani buildup opposite Karimganj where they had built bunkers behind an embankment on the East Bengal side of the Kasuria river.
The Chief Minister said that he would apprise the Defense Minister of the feelings of member of the House regarding Pakistani preparations across the Karimganj border.
Earlier members belonging to both sides of the House expressed concern over reports of Pakistani troops concentration at Jakiganj in East Bengal across the Karimganj border town of Assam.
UNI adds: More than 7,000 refugees from Chittagong Hill Tract of Bangladesh crossed over to Assem’s Mizo Hills district on Wednesday through Parva official reports said today. This is the first report of large-scale influx into Mizo Hills since war began in Bangladesh on March 25. The evacuees are being shifted and sheltered in a camps at Pachang.