PAKISTAN MARTIAL LAW REGULATONS EXTENDED
Under new martial law regulations published in Karachi Saturday President Yahya Khan took the power to restrict or expel from Pakistan anyone suspected of harmful activities.
The powers of expulsion apply only to foreigners under Regulation 78, issued by President Yahya as General Commander-in Army Chief of the Pakistany and Chief Martial Law Administrator, according to the official news agency from Rawalpindi.
An order can be made under the new regulation by the president or any deputy he authorises in respect of any person “with a view to preventing him from acting in a seditious manner or in a manner prejudicial to the security, public safety or interest of defence of Pakistan, the maintenance of public order. Pakistan’s relations with any other power, the maintenance of peaceful conditions in any part of Pakistan or the maintenance of essential supplies and services”.
Tikka Khan sworn in
Karachi newspaper Saturday featured the swearing in of Lieuteuant General Tikka Khan as East Pakistan Governor in Dacca Friday.
In a ceremony watched by diplomats- including Indian Deputy High Commissioner for Pakistan, SenGupta- the national flag was unfurled and the Dacca High Court Chief Justice. B.A. Siddiky administered the oath.
The swearing in ceremony was a landmark in demonstrating that such an oathtaking when General Tikka was named for the post a month ago was seen as a sign of the stranglehold by the Awami Leagne on official machinery.
At that time General Tikka was switched to the post of Martial Law Administrator, which needed no swearing in by a High Court judge, leaving the governor’s post vacant.
Reuter’s report denied
Friday’s Pakistan Times which reached Karachi Monday, front-paged an Islamabad denial of a Reutar report from Washington that Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco had expressed concern over the use of American Weapons in East Pakistan.
In a leading atticle, he aded “China’s Lead”, the same newspaper praised Peking’s devotion to non-Interference in other’s internal affairs and regreted that “Moscow has been more swayed by Partisan enthusiasm for India than by realism.”
“China’s prominence among the Big Powers rests on the fact that perhaps it is the only one among them which abides by the normal percept to which the others pay only lip-service”, it said.
Karachi newspapers Saturday gave prominence to photographs of normal life in Dacca and of what were said to be Indian weapons captured in East Pakistan.
Reference : The Djakarta Times, 18.04.1971