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There is also the diplomatic issue for the Bengali government of repatriating 93,000 Pakistani POWs (including 20,000 civilians) being held in India from the 1971 war. The POW issue is a crucial one, since it thus far has chilled the already tenuous diplomatic relations on the sub-continent...
...stalemate over the return of the Pakistani POWs has revolved around the issue of diplomatic recognition for Bangladesh. Thus far, Bangladesh has maintained that negotiations on repatriation of the prisoners cannot be held until Pakistan recognizes the legitimacy of the Bengali government. Pakistan has said that the prisoners should have been repatriated at the war's end in accordance with the Geneva Convention...
...Stewart recently. "I am very happy about the progress my people have made, but every problem is a crisis." A big problem is the lack of skilled management personnel to help get both governmental and industrial machinery rolling again. For most of the past two decades, the best-educated Bengali civil servants were routinely sent to West Pakistan to work. Bhutto has been unwilling to allow the 400,000 Bengalis caught in the West during the war to return home...
...Bengali; one must be a Bengali with the right inflection in his voice. "Collaborator" is an easy word to use, and the effects can be devastating. In Dhanmandi, Dacca's most fashionable quarter, residents are now accustomed to having groups of armed youths enter their houses in quest of money and goods. Acts of revenge against the non-Bengali minority of Biharis have subsided in the capital but have continued sporadically elsewhere; at the city of Khulna two weeks ago, a Bengali attack on the Bihari community reportedly left some 2,000 dead. Bitterness against the Biharis is widespread...
Eloquent Proof. The decisive military victory over Pakistan has added immeasurably to Mrs. Gandhi's popular support among India's voters. West Bengalis, particularly grateful that she had championed the Bengali cause-the independence of Bangladesh-lit devotional lamps in front of portraits of the Prime Minister, whom they call Mataji (Mother), and gave her party a two-thirds majority in their 280-seat statehouse...