YAHYA KHAN SUMMONS NAT.
ASSEMBLY MEETING
DACCA, June 27 (AP)
MILITARY President General Mohammed Yahya Khan, is expected to summon a meeting of the National Assembly Monday, and offer former Awami League members some assurances of safety, infromed political sources said here Sunday.
The sources said that an effort will be made to bring assembly members elected under the Awami League banner last December out of hiding. The party was banned March 26, after an army crack down here and the arrest of its leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Dugum Akhtar Sulaiman daughter of the Awami League founder and late prime minister S.H. Suhrawardy, has said that at least 22 of the 167 Awami League assembly members had indicated to her that they would respond to the call.
Political sources claimed that many members were not sure of their fate if they reappeared.
There is speculation here that in his speech on Monday the President will make a ‘wide policy statement’ on the furture and his plans to transfer power from military to civilian rule in the wake of army action in East Pakistan.
It is believed that the President is considering associating some civilians with the government and issuing a document, for eventual consideration by the assembly, to serve as an interim constitution.
The United States, Britain, the Soviet and other countries on which Pakistan is depending for aid, can grant no economic assistance until a political solution brings back normalcy to the geographically divided country.
Reference : The Indonesian Observer, 28.06.1971