Yahya Khan’s invitation
NEW DELHI MAY 21 president Yahya Khan of Pakistan today accused India of circulating “highly exaggerated and distorted” accounts of events in East Bengal and invited the evacuees to return home , says PTI.
Gen Yahya Khan claimed that life was fast returning to normal in East Bengal. He admitted that some people had been forced to flee following violence but said the figure had been inflated by adding the “unemployed and homeless people of West Bengal.”
The President sought to equate the exodus with the problem of Indian Muslims, five lakh of whom Gen Yahya claimed had crossed over to Pakistan since 1964.
Reference: Hindustan Standard 22.5.71