UNDECLARED WAR
Aerial and tank battles fought by the armies of India and Pakistan have confirmed widespread fears that war is now imminent in the Indian sub-continent. The world now realizes how close the two countries are to war. The military rulers of Pakistan have even declared that an “undeclared war” is going on between the two countries and accordingly proclaimed a state of emergency throughout that country.
The one-sided war waged by the rulers of Pakistan inside what was once a part of their own territory provoked a resistance which culminated in a well-organized war within a few months. It is thus a war going on inside Bangladesh that is now sought to be described by the Pakistani rulers as an Indo-Pakistan war. In their attempt to project the resistance wear inside Bangladesh as a war between India and Pakistan, they sent their planes and tanks to attack Indian territory. But the planes were shot down and several tanks ware destroyed and much military equipment was captured by the Indian troops. Then, the Pakistani rulers, with an irresistible desire of installing a püppet regime through deceitful means, declared a state of emergency in their country. Not even the valuable service rendered by the villain Bhutto, by paying a pilgrimage to Peking, could fully satisfy the military rulers. His desire of being made President or Prime Minister remaind unfulfilled. It remains to be seen when Bhutto will outlive his utility.
The Pakistani army has been finding it increasingly difficult to fight its own people. But it wants to be defeated at the hands of a superior power, not at those of the people’s resistance movement known as the Mukti Babini. And for Pakistan, that superior power could be none other than India. Moreover, the military rulers of Pakistan are atill obsessed to some extent with their desire of taking revenge for their is that the military rulers want to erase the whole effect of the result of the elections conducted and organised by themselves. They sought to wipe out the result of these elections by launching tank attacks on wipe out the result of these elections by launching tank attacks on the citizens of Dacca on the night of March 25, 1971, forcing ten million people to fee to India, and murdering, looting and raping a million people. The birth of Bangladesh and activities of the Mukti Bahini were results of this repression. Now the military rulers are seeking to culiminate the people’s representatives of West Pakistan as well. The proclamation of emergency and attempts to find a pretext for provocation against India, constitute the second phase of their campaign to suppress their own people.
A sensible answer to the question of what should be the attitude of the world towards this strange desire of the military rulers of Pakistan, fighting against its own people, can be given only the day when the world is prepared to make an objective analysis of events which have taken place in Pakistan during the past one year. The military regime of Pakistan has been conducting an undeclared war against its own people, a war of mercilessly supressing the rights, life and property of its people. The world has to direct its appeal for disengagement from this ward and restrain towards Pakistan, not to any third country. The intentions of those who try to teach a lesson of restraint to India, which has displayed unparaled fortitude of enduing an invasion which has been mounted on it by ten million refugees, are doubtful.
Reference : The Nepal Times, 30.11.1971