1971.12.11, Country (India), Newspaper (Guardian)
India uses Airdrop to Press its Advance From Harold Jackson : New Delhi, December 10 The Indian Army is continuing its advance on Dacca with as much speed as possible. An official spokesman said tonight that pockets of resistance by Pakistani troops were being...
1971.12.13, Indira, Newspaper (Guardian)
Pakistan’s rich allies’ blamed by Mrs Gandhi Delhi Dec 12– Mrs Gandhi, the Indian Prime Minister, today accused “rich allies” of encouraging Pakistan to go to war, and declared that India was fighting in East Pakistan to uphold freedom in the world. She...
1971.04.27, Country (India), Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Telegraph)
India and Pakistan threaten break as envoys quit By David Loshak, in New Delhi An exchange of increasingly acrimonious Notes between India and Pakistan yesterday brought nearer what Government circles in Delhi term “a diplomatic showdown” which might mean the severing...
1971.12.16, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
David Loshak in New Delhi looks at the cost and problems of the infant Bangladesh. Mother India’s New Offspring Bangladesh must now be regarded as a reality – “recognised.” as India and Bhutan have recognised it, or not. Indian forces are at the...
1971.03.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Pakistan Bengali Maoists plead for arms from Indians From Peter Hazlehurst East Bengal (near the Indian outposts of Tongi), April 2. Bengali Maoists from BanglaDesh have asked their Indian communist sympathizers in West Bengal to send them sophisticated arms at...
1971.03.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Times)
Bengal Fighting May Bring Indian Attack Peter Hazelhurst Calcutta, March 28. Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the West Pakistan leader, has been applauding the Army’s decision to repress the eastern wing and 75 million Bengalis by force. “Thanks to Allah, Pakistan is at...
1971.03.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Wing Sealed off Killing on a mass scale is underway in East Pakistan, caught in the grip of a vicious civil war, according to all available indications from the province, which is now virtually sealed off from the outside world. Diplomatic sources which still...
1971.12.15, Country (India), Newspaper (Hindustan Standard)
Prize capture The Indian Army on Tuesday had a prize catch of a brigadier, the highest ranking Pakistani officer captured so far in the Bangladesh liberation operations, says PTI. Briefing newsmen in Calcutta on Tuesday night, a spokesman for the Eastern Command named...
1971.09.30, Country (India), Country (Russia), Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Refugee
Russia fully supports India’s stand on evacuees’ return From SUNIL BASU, MOSCOW, SEPT, 29 – The Soviet Premier, Mr. Kosygin, told Indian newsmen here yesterday that the Soviet Union fully supported Indian’s “just demand” that the...
