Pakistan rushing more troops to Sherpur
MUJIBNAGAR, AUG. 19- Pakistan is rushing more troops to the Sherpur area in Mymensingh district and in the Tangail area in view of intensified activities of the Bangladesh freedom fighters, reports UNI.
In Mymensingh district, at least half a dozen Pakistani soldiers were killed on August 14 when the freedom fighters launched a surprise attack on an Army position near Jamalpur.
A large number of liberation forces carried out a raid in Morreiganj, 40 km southeast of Khulna on August 16 killing 15 razakars and ten other collaborators.
In the Sylhet sector, freedom fighters fired upon a running Army special train on August 11 between Shambazpur and Barlekha. Two bogies of the train were badly damaged and several soldiers were killed.
In a major encounter in the Chittagong sector on the night of August 13-14, freedom fighters killed about 10 Pakistani soldiers, a dozen razakars and some Mizos who were collaborating with the Pakistani Army.
According to the English language weekly the People, close relatives of some of the top Pakistani Army officers are among those killed by the guerillas in Bangladesh in recent weeks.
Captain Sarwar son of Lt. Gen. Azhar was killed in the Comilla sector and Capt. Hashem khan, son-in-law of Lt. Gen. Riaz, in the Sylhet sector.
Capt. Qamar Abbas, son-in-law of Mr. Rizvi, Director of Central Intelligence was killed at Mymensingh and Major Kazim Kamal Khan, brother of Naval Commodore Kamal in Tangail.
Mr. Hussain Ali, Chief of Bangladesh Mission in Calcutta, in a message to the Jamiat-e-Ulema convention, alleged that the Pakistani Army was injecting poisonous chemicals into Bangladesh children to make them idiots.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 20.08.1971