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Worst of all, East Pakistan feels isolated and unprotected. After last September's Indo-Pakistan war, when East Pakistan found itself guarded by only one of Pakistan's nine army divisions, the East's leading political party, the Awami League, decided that it was time for action. Led by spellbinding Sheik Mujibur Rahman, 45, the Awami League drafted a six-point platform calling for East Pakistan's autonomy in all matters except foreign policy and defense, and Mujibur Rahman stumped the eastern part of the country gathering support. Then early last month, the government arrested Mujibur...
...Dacca's police opened fire "in self-defense." The riots kept on for two days, and finally, after five rioters had been killed and two leading politicos smeared with filth by the mob, East Pakistan's nervous Governor Fazlul Huk gave in and asked the rabble-rousing Awami League Party to form a new provincial government...
Rule of East Pakistan by the Awami League, which wants Pakistan to switch to a neutralist foreign policy, carried unpleasant implications for the U.S., which considers Pakistan its most reliable ally on the Asian continent. It also posed a considerably more immediate threat to Prime Minister Mohamad Ali, 51, the lean financial expert who has led Pakistan's central government for 13 turbulent months. In the last two years Pakistani politicians have taken to switching parties with all the abandon of a woman trying on hats, and it was now almost certain that a number of East Pakistan members...
Even without this flank attack, however, Ali's position was untenable. On the same day that the Awami League took over East Pakistan, two of Ali's central government ministers deserted his Moslem League Party, leaving the league with only eleven out of 80 seats in the National Assembly. To make matters worse, the Moslem League itself was talking of expelling Ali on the grounds that he had been dealing over-enthusiastically with other parties in the coalition on which his government depends...