Pakistan Observer
16th March 1969
Nurul Amin on Mujib’s statement: All East Pak leaders pressed for autonomy
RAWALPINDI Mar. 15:-The leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Mr. Nurul Amin, said here today that the participants in the Round Table Conference from East Pakistan fully championed the cause of East and West Pakistani’s reports APP.
He was asked by newsmen to comment on a statement by the Awami League Leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dacca yesterday.
Mr. Nurul Amin said that the DAC leaders, particularly from East Pakistan, not only placed their views on all the issues troubling the mind of the people, but also pressed for more regional autonomy representation on population basis and dismemberment of One Unit in West Pakistan.
Mohmud Ali
In a statement to the Press on Saturday Mr. Mahmud Ali said: “I feel constrained to have to enter into a controversy with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who has thought fit to make a public statement against us immediately after his arrival at Dacca yesterday. The main burden of his statement is that he alone amongst the participants in the RTC from East Pakistan championed the case and cause of that region and everybody else either directly or indirectly took up an attitude which ultimately frustrated his stand in the matter.
In politics as in other spheres of life it is not enough to desire to do good, the desire must be followed up with a proper assessment of what is good and how to do it. Fact is a necessary element of tactics.
“The Sheikh Saheb has himself admitted that the people in general in West Pakistan are in favour of regional autonomy for East Pakistan. The same holds good more so for the leadership in West Pakistan. It will be evident from the fact that the West Pakistan leadership accepted the 8-point programme of the PDM, six points of which relate to the economic and constitutional demands of East Pakistan.
The Sheikh Saheb should remind himself when he accuses others that the demands contained in PDM’s 8-points were agreed to by him and on his behalf and on behalf of the Awami League, Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, Mr. Abdus Salam Khan and Khan Ghulam Mohammad Khan Lundkhowar signed the document long before he decided to break away from the PDM with his faction.
“These were placed before the people of both East and West Pakistan, During the last two years hundreds of meetings were held throughout the country to explain the same. We can reasonably claim that the 8-point programme of the PDM had and still has the consensus of the people.”
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