PAK. CHARGES
Pakistan claimed Monday Indian troops supported by artilary from across the Eastern border attacked a frontier post in East Pakistan.
The claim was made in a protest handed to the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad it demanded India take- “necessary measures to ensure such incidents do not occur again.”
According to the protest, armed Indians supported by artiliary which could have come only from Indian territory, attacked a post three mile north of Kasba early on Friday.
Several hundred East Pakistan independence fighters, struggling in from their breakaway province, were regrouping here Monday on the Indian side of the free province.
An officer of the Indian border security force said the soldiers from Bangla Deshthe new name given to East Pakistan were preparing for a counter attack against the advancing Pakistan army.
The secessiont troops driven out from the nearby East Pakistan border town Ogaitherpur Sunday, crossed into India with their weapons, and no attempt had been made so far by Indian authorities to disarm them.
After a pursuit of several kilometers. Indian security troops ordered an Associated Press newsman and photographer and a cameraman of a U.S. television net work (CBS) to give up their film of the Bangla-Desh force at Leita but when the newsman refused the Indians did not press their demand.
Bangla Desh vehicles, loaded with armed men were moving freely on roads between Beitu and Krishnanagar, some 25 miles (40 km) from here.
Scores of Bangla Desh troops rifles, submachineguns and even bazookas slung over their shoulders-walked on their way to Bela camp along quagmire tracks accessible only to bullock carts and fourwheel drive vehicles.
Those not carrying weapons carried umbrellas. They tramped across the border with several thousand civilian refugees they looked tired, bedraggled and dispirited.
Border officials reported members of the newly formed provisional government of Bangla Desh also have crossed in India.
Reference : Indonesian Observer, 20.04.1971