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...keeping the Eastern wing from breaking away to establish Bangla Desh, an independent Bengal state. But the strain of the undertaking is overtaxing West Pakistan's resources and nerves. "This regime has East Pakistan stuck in its throat," says one American diplomat in the federal capital of Islamabad. "The army must either swallow it or cough...
Border Shooting. One result is a series of diplomatic snubs and threats between Pakistan and India. After Pakistan's chief diplomat in Calcutta defected to the Bangla Desh side, Islamabad sent a successor who was unable to make his way to the mission through Indian demonstrators. Pakistan thereupon closed the office and demanded that India shut down its mission in Dacca...
...Dacca, I found astonishing unanimity on the Bengali desire for independence and a determination to resist the Pakistan army with whatever means available. "We will not be slaves," said one resistance officer, "so there is no choice but to fight until we win." The oncoming monsoon rains and the Islamabad government's financial problems will also work in favor of Bangla Desh. As the months pass and such hardships increase, Islamabad may have to face the fact that unity by force of arms is not exactly the Pakistan that Jinnah had in mind...
Following the December elections, Mujib twice turned down Yahya's invitations to confer in Islamabad, the national capital located in the West. Yahya went to Dacca, the capital of East Pakistan, and so did Bhutto. They got nowhere with Mujib, who warned stiffly that the minority would no longer rule the majority...
...Visas. Even as Yahya was stepping up his relief budget, Islamabad, the national capital, was balking at accepting aid from neighbors. When Indira Gandhi offered help, a Pakistani official told the Indian High Commissioner: "We don't know if it will be needed." The Pakistanis refused Indian helicopters, mobile hospitals and river craft, doubtless because they were worried that New Delhi might look better than Islamabad. Indian Airlines transports loaded with relief supplies were refused permission to land at Chittagong because the crews did not have visas. New Delhi was told to send the stuff by truck instead; less...