Morning News
1st August 1965
Mujib’s Statement A Support To U.S Imperialism
Nap Leaders’ Rejoinder
Lyallpur, July 31 (APP): Chaudhury Sardar Ali and Mr. Mohammad Ikram, President and General Secretary of the Lyallpur National Awami Party respectively today expressed their surprise over the strong exception taken by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Awami League and Prof. Ghulam Azam of Jamaat-eIslami at the anti imperialist agitation being carried on by Maulana Bhashani against the freezing of aid by United States.
In a joint rejoinder issued an a Press conference, he two leaders said that their statement had exposed their real motive and asked why a Pakistani should feel so much perturbed over the patriatic struggle against American imperialism.
They said that the statement of Mr. Mujibur Rahman and Prof. Azam were “nothing but the support of the American imperialist to make Pakistan helplessly tied to the apron strings of the United States for ever.
The rejoinder said, “It will be a tragedy if certain political leaders succeed in misusing our democratic struggle for diverting the attention of the people from their sacred struggle against the American imperialism. This attempt is an outright betrayal of the cause of democracy. It is like selling out the whole democratic movement to the foreign interest.
Mr. Mujib has tried to create doubts regarding the attitude of Maulana Bhashani during the Presidential election in public mind but may we ask him as to who was eagerly trying to barter away the whole democratic movement through the honest brokery of an important industrialist just during the Presidential elections and who had been moving around Rawalpindi to earn a few Ministerial seats immediately before the Presidential elections.
Mr. Mujibur Rahman appear to be much worried about the toiling masses and the economic inequality and exploitation but may we ask him as to when did he develop this sudden love for the toiling masses and a sudden dislike for the economic inequality. we ask this because we well remember as to how Mr. Mujib and his party have been playing into the hands of a few vested interests, including certain foreign interests, to the great detriment of the teeming millions.
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