Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...India's almost 600 million people. By last week, however, it was clear that the country's economy, never robust, was bogging down for reasons that are not of Mrs. Gandhi's making. More than 6,000,000 refugees have fled to India since the Pakistani government, based in West Pakistan, began a savage campaign of repression and terror in East Pakistan last March. The cost of feeding and sheltering the refugees-and caring for thousands of cholera victims-will total at least $400 million in the first six months...
...refugees from predominantly Moslem East Pakistan are Hindus seeking sanctuary in West Bengal and other eastern Indian states, where their co-religionists are in the vast majority. What particularly worries India is that their chances of ever returning home are diminishing. Last week New Delhi said that the Pakistanis were destroying the title deeds of property owned by Hindus in East Pakistan. So «u the Indians may have to accept, on a permanent basis, a Pakistani refugee population that could eventually reach 10 million...
...Gandhi has rejected such talk, but it is growing in volume, even among Members of Parliament. " to persuade other countries to provide emergency aid and put pressure on the Pakistani government to ease its repression in East Pakistan, the Prime Minister has sent several of her colleagues abroad to explain India's predicament-so far with little success...
...Power. A tough young East Pakistani who calls himself a Naxalite told TIME Correspondent James Shepherd: "For the moment, the common enemy [of both the Awami League and the East Bengali Naxalites] is the Pakistan army. The arms that India gives the Awami League will find their way to the Naxalites, and eventually we will fight not only the army but also the bourgeoisie and the feudal elements." Contemptuous of democratic processes, the Naxalite said scornfully: "Now the Awami League cadres are seeing the truth of the saying that political power grows out of the barrel...
According to an official who has toured the border, Pakistani troops and their anti-Hindu supporters are demanding $140 a person before letting family members leave East Pakistan. Lacking only $25 of the ransom for his wife, one man pleaded: "Beat me for the rest." They let his wife go after he was beaten on the temple with a bamboo stick until he lost...