THE BALTIMORE SUN, DECEMRER 5, 1971
PAKISTAN RECKLESSNESS
Pakistan’s desperation is of its own fashioning. It arises from the utterly reckless, ultimately sure to be futile, attempts to keep East Bengal in subjugation by force and terror. That having failed, Pakistan has now fallen back into a condition of spirit displayed clearly enough in the Pakistan Radio’s call for a Jehad, a holy Muslim war, this despite the fact that the rebellious East Bengalis are themselves largely Muslim, the Hindu minority having been killed or driven out. It is a spirit of heedlessness and perhaps hopelessness, once expressed by an earlier leader who declared in an earlier crisis that Pakistan was ready to go to war against India “With sword in hand and shroud on shoulder.”