Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Almost daily, large delegations of angry wives, mothers, sisters and girl friends troop to Bhutto's office in Rawalpindi for fresh assurance that he is trying to speed the return of 94,000 Pakistani prisoners of war held by India. When Indo-Pakistani negotiations begin, probably later this month, Bhutto will be forced to bargain at a serious disadvantage in prisoners (Pakistan holds only 600) as well as territory seized in the December fighting (5-1 in India's favor...
...Indians are prepared to hold discussions, but they have made it clear to Washington that they will insist on certain implicit conditions: the U.S. should 1) not resume arms sales to Pakistan, 2) recognize Bangladesh, and 3) most important, accept New Delhi's view that the Indian-Pakistani balance of power no longer exists on the subcontinent. In return, the Indian government is prepared to offer guarantees to Washington that it supports the principle of an independent Pakistan and will refrain from any kind of interference in Pakistani affairs...
...sent the hopes of 78 million Bengalis soaring in expectation of a bright future. But now the early rapture of freedom is fading, and the Bengali mood is growing subdued in the face of the new country's enormous problems. TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin covered the nine-month Pakistani civil war last year and was in Dacca in December to witness the triumphant entry of Indian troops. Last week he returned to the new capital to assess the pace of reconstruction. His report...
...nation seems more intent upon recounting past horrors than on reconstruction. Daily newspaper stories of the Pakistani massacre-Prime Minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman estimates it claimed 3,000,000 lives-rate bigger headlines than the problem of rebuilding the 150 factories destroyed or disabled. When Indian forces leave on March 25, violence will threaten the 1,500,000 Biharis who emigrated from India to East Bengal in 1947, many of whom collaborated openly with the Pakistani army. Some bitterness and reliving of the past are understandable at this stage. But time is short if a new disaster...
Inevitably, however, Bengali passions were further inflamed by new discoveries of atrocities committed by the Pakistan army. No one was safe from the bloodbath; in the last days before the surrender, Pakistani troops killed Indian army prisoners and even their own wounded. In three sites near the city of Khulna, great piles of human skulls and skeletons led observers to estimate that 100,000 people died in that area alone. To determine the full extent of the carnage, Mujib has ordered a house-to-house census throughout the country...