Word: pakistani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After five days of intense negotiations in New Delhi last week, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh signed an agreement resolving the last two major issues left over from the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. The accord clears the way for normalization of diplomatic and economic relations among the three countries and for Bangladesh's membership in the United Nations, which until now has been vetoed by China at Pakistan's behest...
...Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Bangladesh Premier Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who have been enemies since Bangladesh split off from Pakistan two years ago. Bhutto solemnly recognized the independence of Pakistan's former east wing, while Sheik Mujib hinted that he will no longer press wartime atrocity charges against 195 Pakistani officers held prisoner in India. Mujib promised also to do "my bit" to reconcile Pakistan and India, a task that would tax even Henry Kissinger...
...Maybe it can't be done, but if anybody can do it, he can," said Joe Sisco to the Pakistani Ambassador to Washington. The lanky Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, like the 38 other members of Henry Kissinger's entourage, was nervously waiting for takeoff in the VIP lounge at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. It was 8 o'clock in the morning, but one by one the ambassadors of Iran, Morocco and Jordan and the Chinese liaison officer-all representing countries that Kissinger would visit in his twelve...
...talks with Nixon had failed to change the U.S. arms policy toward Pakistan, which is anxious to replace matériel lost in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. The U.S. shipment of armored personnel carriers during the conflict provoked charges that Washington was favoring Pakistan. The Administration denied it-until Columnist Jack Anderson leaked the now famous memo quoting Henry Kissinger as saying, "The President wants to tilt in favor of Pakistan." The U.S. currently supplies Bhutto with "nonlethal" equipment such as trucks, uniforms and spare parts, and will consider requests for ammunition only on a case-by-case basis...
India was less pleased, though, with Bhutto's declaration to the United Nations last week that Pakistan would oppose the admission of Bangladesh until all Pakistani prisoners of war are returned. Indian Foreign Minister Swaran Singh accused Bhutto of making "a crude attempt to nibble" at the agreement signed by India and Pakistan last month for the exchange of all prisoners except 195 charged with war crimes...