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...have been maligned," declared the Pakistani armed forces intelligence chief, Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan. The general's complaint, delivered to half a dozen foreign journalists in Karachi, concerned the widespread reports of army brutality in the effort to crush the seven-week-old Bengali rebellion in East Pakistan. Incensed by what it describes as "concocted items put out by foreign press and radio," the government staged a series of briefings and a fast four-day helicopter tour of the East to get the "correct" story across...
...face of this, Pakistan's government proved shockingly inept and many of its people cruelly callous. Four days after the cyclone hit, East Pakistan's governor, Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, was still downplaying the catastrophe, saying that "only" 16,000 had been killed. Though people were still reported floating alive offshore three days after the cyclone, the Pakistani navy was never ordered to search for survivors. Some 500,000 tons of grain were stockpiled in East Pakistan warehouses, but the 40-odd Pakistani army helicopters that could have airlifted them to the delta sat on their pads...
...aftermath deepened the hate and envy felt by East Pakistan's dark, rice-eating Bengalis for the taller, fairer-and wealthier-wheat-eating Sindhis, Punjabis and Pathans of West Pakistan, the dominant half of the divided Moslem country. Anti-West Pakistan riots among the Bengalis forced ex-President Mohammad Ayub Khan into retirement last year. Successor Yahya, who has scheduled for next week the first general elections since Pakistan won independence 22 years ago, has taken some steps to correct the economic and political imbalance between East and West. But he has a long...
President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan did not inspect the area until almost a week after a 25-foot tidal wave devastated the islands in the Ganges delta on November 13. The government, dominated by the Punjabis of Western Pakistan, did not have a coordinated program to help the survivors until two weeks later...
Crude Instruments. There were risks involved in what the economists did, notably in lifting Sukarno's foreign-exchange restrictions to stimulate exports. "It was like a doctor operating on a patient," says Mohammad Sadli, head of the Foreign Investment Board. "The patient was too weak, and our instruments were crude, but we couldn't postpone the operation." In 1966, the inflation rate was 650%; now it is being held below 25% a year. The basic price of rice has been stabilized at less than half the top price of last year...