Another Pak Diplomat Quits
LONDON, AUG, 5 – A Second official of the Pakistan High Commission here has quit his senior position “in protest over the situation in East Pakistan.” reports Reuter. He is Mr. MD. Akbar Lutful Matin, 35, the commission’s director of audit and accounts.
Mr. Matin, married with three children, went to work as usual this morning. After discreetly clearing up his personal affairs he went out to lunch. “I will never return.”, he said later in an interview.
Five days ago Second Secretary Mohiuddin Ahmed, 27 announced at a Bangladesh rally in Trafalgar Square that he was resigning his post in protest. Mr. Ahmed has now applied to the British Government for political asylum. He said today that he expected the request to be granted.
Both Mr. Matin and Mr. Ahmed will now work for Mr. Justice A. S. Chowdhury, Chief overseas representative of a group calling itself the Government of Bangladesh, which operates from London.
About 70 US supporters of Bangladesh today demonstrated outside the White House demanding that President Nixon end his support of Pakistan’s military regime. The group carrying banners reading “Nixon supports Pakistani genocide.” gathered in Lafayette Park to stage “guerrilla theater” to enact the Pakistani Army’s repression in East Bengal.
AFP adds: Three young men were escorted from the Public gallery of the House of Commons today when they shouted slogans against Britain’s attitude towards Bangladesh.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 06.08.1971