Word: yahya
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...Pakistanis were asked in advance to aid in the disappearing act; President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan was apparently in on the secret. Kissinger arrived in Islamabad on the afternoon of July 8. After a 90-minute chat with President Yahya Khan, he made a sudden change in his schedule. Word was put out that he was going to the mountain resort of Nathia Gali for a brief working holiday. That was the last anyone in Pakistan was to see of Kissinger for 64 hours...
...World Bank, as well as most of the Western aid-giving nations, has concluded that economic aid to Pakistan should be suspended until the government of President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan takes significant steps toward easing its repression of the East. Last week, however, the Nixon Administration admitted that its economic aid to Pakistan, which amounted to $213 million last year, will continue. Even military aid, which theoretically was cut off when the terror began in East Pakistan on March 25, will not be suspended for equipment ordered before that date...
...dual motive: maintaining leverage with Yahya to seek a settlement in East Pakistan, and preventing Islamabad from becoming even more reliant on Peking than it already is for military assistance. Though Yahya promised last week that he would convene a "legislature" within four months, the conflict in East Pakistan is continuing, and there is no sign that leverage is producing the desired result...
...Pakistan's President Agha Mo hammed Yahya Khan was loath to let Mujib attain power in the central government, and he was even less inclined to grant greater autonomy to East Pakistan. The subsequent crackdown by Pakistan's army, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of East Pakistanis, has made a political settlement even more remote...
...unable to meet the debt repayments due to U.S. and European creditors in May and June. Foreign aid, including an $80 million loan from the U.S., has stopped, and the eleven-nation consortium that supports most of Pakistan's economic development is reluctant to bail out Yahya's regime until the present crisis is ended...