1971.03.29, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Times)
More ‘Independence’ Moves Amalendu Das Gupta Calcutta. March 28. Although Pakistan Radio claims that the army is in full control of the situation in the eastern province. unofficial reports reaching Calcutta say that fierce fighting is continuing in Dacca....
1971.03.29, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Guardian)
Will Pakistan Fall Apart? Pakistan is pitching towards political chaos at a truly frightening speed; and bad luck compounds bad judgment. On one hand there is renewed confrontation with India over Kashmir hijacking which provokes war nerves, bellicose rhetoric and...
1971.03.29, Newspaper (Guardian), Yahya Khan
Yahya Has Taken A Move For Autonomy And Made it Into A Revolution Peter Preston There have always been two views of Yahya Khan. Either he was what he professed: a gruff and straight-forward Pathan soldier – pear-shaped, sunk in his cups of an evening, eager to...
1971.03.27, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Guardian)
Tragedy In Pakistan (Editorial) Pakistan’s civil war has finally erupted, and in the worst possible circumstances. While the two sides kept talking some hopes of compromise remained. But troop reinforcements arrived with suspicious speed by boat after the talks...
1971.03.27, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Times)
Pakistan on The Brink of War East Pakistan yesterday exploded into violence and grave political drama. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the acknowledged leader of Bengali nationalism in the province, responded heroically to the Pakistan army’s intervention with a call for...
1971.03.13, Newspaper (Guardian), Political Steps of Bangabandhu, Yahya Khan
Mujib Ready To See Yahya Martin Adeney Dacca, March 12. Sheikh Mujib said today that he was willing to hold discussions with President Yahya to settle the question of East Pakistan once and for all. The president of the Awami League, which is acting as the virtual...
1971.03.16, District (Dhaka), Newspaper (Guardian), Yahya Khan
Machine Gun Guard On Yahya In Dacca Martin Adeney Dacca, March 15. President Yahya Khan drove onto Dacca today. behind half a dozen military trucks with machine guns leveled, to try to solve the constitutional crisis. For a fortnight this has caused East and West...
1971.06.13, Newspaper (Sunday Times), Yahya Khan
The Politics Explained: Why Yahya Sent in The Troops Pakistan, the predominantly Muslim nation which resulted from the partition of the British Raj in 1947, consists of two separate territories, divided by a thousand miles of India. West Pakistan (main city Karachi)...
1971.03.17, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Telegraph)
‘Package Deal’ to Preserve Unity of Pakistan Kenneth Clarke Karachi. President Yahya Khan’s visit to Dacca, in Pakistan’s east wing, is seen in Karachi as the last chance of preserving the unity of the nation. After a weekend of comings and goings at...
1971.03.22, District (Dhaka), Newspaper (Time), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Troops train guns on angry Bengalis as Mr Bhutto arrives for Dacca talks From Peter Hazelburst Karachi, March 21 Mr. Z. A. Bhutto, the leader of West Pakistan, met President Yahya Khan in the East Pakistan capital of Dacca tonight for crucial talks on the...
