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...same time, the fate of some 200,000 Bengalis who have been held hostage in Pakistan since the war and want to return to Bangladesh will be negotiated along with the disposition of about 250,000 Biharis in Bangladesh who want to go to Pakistan. Bhutto told TIME that Dacca's intention to try 195 P.O.W.s was still "the main hurdle" to successful negotiations...
Last month India and Bangladesh proposed a new settlement calling for simultaneous repatriation of the P.O.W.s, the Biharis and the Bengalis. To sweeten the offer, Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, dropped his insistence that Pakistan formally recognize his country prior to negotiations. Dacca also scaled down the number of Pakistani soldiers it wants to try for atrocities committed during the war from 2,500 to less than...
...officials. Pakistan has adamantly opposed such trials on the ground that soldiers who committed atrocities should be tried by Pakistani military tribunals. Since General Tikka Khan, who led the military suppression of the Bengalis, is now Pakistan's army Chief of Staff, Bangladesh is unmoved by that argument. Dacca last week denounced the raids on the Bengalis as "barbarous," and Indian Foreign Minister Swaran Singh said that Pakistan's action "can only retard the process of normalization in the subcontinent...
...wearying of the POW issue were apparent in an editorial published in the April 4 edition of the New Delhi Statesman. "New Delhi is perhaps reconciled to the prospect of some trials being held," the statement said; "all it can hope for is that their number be restricted and Dacca will agree to the release of the bulk of the POWs without delay...
...only bargaining point that Pakistan's President Bhutto can resort to is the 160,000 Bengali detainees being held in Pakistan. And, according to the current Newsweek article, "Bhutto fears that if he recognizes the Dacca regime, the Bengalis and the Indians will only demand more concessions...