Pakistan heading for total decimation, says Ali
By a Staff Reporter, By committing aggression against the entire people of India and Bangladesh, the military junta of West Pakistan has only paved the way for its own total decimation as a power base, said Mr. Hossain Ali, High Commissioner of Bangladesh in a statement in Calcutta on Saturday.
Referring to the declaration of war in India by Pakistan, Mr. Ali expressed the hops that this war, “the final war” as President Yahya Khan has described it, will mean the final and irrevocable destruction of the ruthless military machine that has held to ransom the people of Pakistan, for decades and committed genocide and unimaginable atrocities in Bangladesh. “The 75 million people of Bangladesh stand today solidly by their Indian brethren in their hour of peril”, the statement added.
Mr. Ali said the desperation of the Pakistani military leaders in declaring war against India indicates their wish to secure intervention by foreign powers and activate the machinery of the United Nations.
Reacting to the declaration of war by Pakistan, Mr. Khondkar Mushtaq Ahmed, Bangladesh Foreign Minister, said, “West Pakistan will be buried.”
The Acting President, Mr. Syed Nazrul Islam, the Prime Minister, Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed and the Home Minister, Mr. Kamrujjaman were not available since they were visiting liberated areas.
Mr. Ahmed said that total Independence of Bangladesh was imminent. He said that the eastern wing of the erstwhile Pakistan had been wiped out on March 25 with the unilateral declaration of independence on March 25. He was sure the adventurist attack on India will no doubt obliterate Pakistan from the face of the earth.
Prof. Muzaffar Ahmed, President of the Bangladesh National Awami Party, has condemned the blatant attack on India by the Pakistani military junta and expressed the Bangladesh people’s solidarity with the people of India.
Prof. Ahmed in a statement today said that having been defeated by Mukti Bahini in all sectors in Bangladesh and forced to cede a substantial portion of territory to the freedom fighters, the military junta had now resorted to a naked aggression on India.
Mr. Abdus Salam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, said the blatant attack of the Pakistani air force on the Indian aerodromes seemed to be a calculated move to turn the Bangladesh issue into an Indo-Pakistani war.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 05.12.1971