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...loss of 73 of its own. No fewer than 60 tanks-45 of Pakistan's, 15 of India's-were knocked out in the last day of the war in a fierce struggle that raged for more than 24 hours. The incident took place on the Punjabi plains, where the Indians tried to draw the Pakistanis out of the town of Shakargarh (meaning "the place of sugar"), in order to attack the important Pakistani military garrison of Sialkot...
There were even heavier and bloodier battles, including tank clashes on the Punjabi plain and in the deserts to the south, along the 1,400-mile border between India and the western wing of Pakistan, where the two armies have deployed about 250,000 men. Civilians were fleeing from the border areas, and residents of Karachi, Rawalpindi and Islamabad were in a virtual state of siege and panic over day and night harassment raids by buzzing Indian planes...
...another in cities and towns. In West Pakistan, communal troubles are rare only because very few Hindus hung on after partition. But in East Pakistan, Moslem oppression had caused a steady Hindu migration to India even before the current troubles began. Now that light-skinned Pathan and Punjabi troops from the West rule by the gun, dark-skinned Bengali Moslems try to survive by informing on their equally dark-skinned Bengali Hindu neighbors. In India, meanwhile, the sight of a Hindu mob seeking vengeance for some Moslem insult is all too familiar. Such incidents have grown fairly frequent since...
...sectors of Moslem Pakistan, painfully amputated from newly independent Hindu India in 1947 for religious reasons, have never really shared anything beyond a common religion. The tall, lightskinned Punjabi Moslems of largely arid, wheat growing West Pakistan are separated from the short, darkerskinned Bengali Moslems of tropical, rice growing East Pakistan by 1,000 Miles of Indian territory. Yet the populations of the two regions are roughly equal (the East is slightly larger, with 55 per cent of the nation's 130 million people), and hopes were high that with the help of foreign aid and expertise, the two regions...
...convicted of the undefined charges of "waging war against Pakistan and other offenses." When he was arrested last March 26, hours after the army crackdown, Yahya publicly branded him a traitor and hinted that he "might not live." Observed one Western diplomat last week: "You know how hot the Punjabi plains are this time of year. You might say Mujib has a snowball's chance of acquittal...