Morning News
29 th October 1967
Bhutto’s conduct
— Political support here which he has failed to secure in West Pakistan. Coming over to East Pakistan the other day obviously to seek support for his party he waxed eloquent to the students by regretting that “Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been levelled as disruptionist”. In the same breath he “disagreed with those who thought that in the garb of six-point demand Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had been working for the secession of East Pakistan. He further said, “I don’t think that six-point demand was a secessionist move and that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman can work for disintegrating the country”.
“In Juxtaposition of this, I would only place on record for public reapprisal of his statement made at the Pakistan Muslim League Council meeting at the Institute of Engineers at a meeting of the Pakistan Muslim League Council held on March 20, 1966, terning Sheikh Mujib’s six-point programme as a secessionist move. He said that “Pakistan is Indivisible ….. There could not be any reshaping of Pakistan”. He said, “because such a reshaping would involve the opinion of 170 million people of the subcontinent.” He further warned that “any talk about reorganisation of the country would mean another Granada for Islam.”
I would now ask : “Is he now going to patch up an alliance with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to reshape Pakistan which, according to him would involve the opinion of 170 million people of the sub-continent, or is he going to create another Granada for Islam?”
Mr. Bhutto has also gone to the extent of bestowing national leadership on Sheikh Mujib who is also now his fellow-traveller in politics. Could I ask what are the criteria of a national leadership. It is only the people who can judge and say who is a national leader.
I firmly believe that the people of East Pakistan will not be misled by the heinous propaganda of the ill-assorted selfish politicians and will always circumvent such move.
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