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21st March 1966
E Wing AL adopts 6-point programme
DACCA, March 20: The East Pakistan League yesterday “fully endorsed and adopted as the party programme the six-points recently put forward by its Secretary General and President-elect, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The endorsement was given at the party’s current conference.
A party Press release said yesterday that the six-point programme was “most opportune and commendable” for “strengthening the defence of East Pakistan, and for its economic and political emancipation.
If implemented in “Its true spirit” the programme will lead to greater integrity and solidarity of Pakistan and “contribute immensely to the development and growth of Pakistani nationalism,” the release added.
A number of resolutions went also passed by the AL conference yesterday. One of them Viewed “with great concern the determention in the economic condition or the people for lack of opportunities of earning on the one hand and soaring prices of all essential commodities on the other and demanded arrangements “for balancing this anamolus position.”
It also disapproved for compulsory paddy procurement policy of the Government of East Pakistan for building up reserve stocks and demanded its withdrawal. Instead it recommended building up of these stocks through imports.
Another resolution demanded immediate release of all political prisoners detained under Satety Laws or Defence of Pakistan Rules. The DPR and other emergency measures introduced in the wake of Indo-Pakistan conflict last September should be withdrawn it said.
In this context it asked for the release of five West Pakistan leaders and students now under detention for agitation against the Tashkent Declaration. All cases instituted in this connection should be withdrawn.
In another resolution the East Pakistan Awami League appealed to its detained West Pakistani colleague, Khwaja Mohammad Rafique to said reported hunger strike.
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