1971.11.02, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Guardian)
Bengali diplomats stage a walk-out The East Pakistani employees left the Pakistan High Commission here with their families today to join the BanglaDesh movement. They claimed that they had been beaten up by West Pakistani members at the High Commision. Two of them...
1971.11.03, Newspaper (Times)
More Pakistanis defect From Our own Correspondent, Delhi, Nov 2 After a brief scuffle with their West Pakistani colleagues, most of the Bengali members of the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi defected to India today. Eleven Bengalis on the clerical staff of the...
1971.04.14, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Pakistan terrain suited for guerrillas By Brig. W.F.K. Thompson, Military correspondent East Pakistan, not much more than half the area of Great Britain, 55,000 square miles against 89,000 has a slightly greater population, about 55 million against 52 million....
1971.04.16, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Bangladesh Envoy For Britain By David Loshak Somewhere in the Sylhet district of East Pakistan Two emissaries, claiming to represent the newly formed government of BanglaDesh, left Calcutta for Amsterdam and London yesterday. They traveled under assumed names,...
1971.04.18, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Dacca Vice-Chancellor on Massacre of his students The Vice-Chancellor of Dacca University has now been in London for a little over three weeks. An unremarkable enough fact, until the dreadful realization dawns that last month tanks of the Pakistan army moved against...
1971.04.18, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Bengal rebel envoys given help in India By David Loshak in Calcutta India and Pakistan may sever diplomatic relations as tension between the two countries mounts over the civil war in East Pakistan. The atmosphere is highly charged by accusations and...
1971.04.18, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Matter of Conscience Have the consciences of men been permanently blunted by the brutality of the age in which we have lived two world wars, the Hitler and Stalin atrocities, the atom bomb, Vietnam, and recently, on a smaller scale, the starvation in Biafra? What...
1971.04.19, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Pakistan Envoy Flies Rebel Flag. Calcutta, April 18. Mr. M. Hossain Ali today renounced his post of Pakistan’s Deputy High Commissioner to India and hoisted the green, red and gold flag of Bangladesh (Bengali nation) at his mission here….As he spoke. A...
1971.04.19, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Rebel Commander Admits ‘Odds Are Against Us’ Michael Hornsby Calcutta, April 18. The “Democratic Republic of Bangladesh” was proclaimed in the dappled sunlight of a mango grove on Saturday less than a mile inside the East Pakistan border. The choice of a site so...
1971.04.26, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Giving up all for BanglaDesh A former Pakistan diplomat in Calcutta explains why he changed his allegiance Calcutta April 25-Mr. Hossain Ali, the former Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan who is now “head of the BanglaDesh mission” in Calcutta, has said that his...
