NEW YORK TIMES October 11 1971
By Malcolm M. Browne

Dacca Oct. 10 The horror of life in East Pakistan shows every sign of becoming permanently institutionalized, and most, if not all, the foreigners who came hoping to help are on the verge of despair.
In particular, the chances of reversing the tide of millions of destitute refugees who have fled to India seem remote. Most governments consider the refugee problem the main catalyst in the atmosphere of war prevailing on the sub-continent.
India charges that military terror in East Pakistan since the central government moved against the Bengali separatists on March 25 has driven nine million refugees across her borders. Those people, the Indians say, are an intolerable drain on already vastly overtaxed economic resources and a force that could result in a political catastrophe or internal warfare.

THE TIMES (DAILY) TUESDAY, July 20, 1971    By : Michael Hornsby

When President Yahya Khan ordered his troops into ac¬tion in East Pakistan on March 25, to quell what he considered a dangerous threat to the integrity of the country, it is unlikely that he foresaw the consequences : a people living in terror of the army and economic life disrupted, and ahead only the prospect of a prolonged military occupation of the colonial type, harassed by the increasing activity of guerrilla groups.
Nor, alas, is there much sign that the President, who depends entirely on his military commanders for information, has any clearer grasp of the consequences now. A blunt, amiable soldier, President Yahya is intellectually and temperamentally unequipped to make the sort of responses that might just conceivably salvage something from the disaster in the east. His credit with the Bengalis, certainly, is completely exhausted.

NEW YORK TIMES, June, 1971

[ John Kenneth Galbraith, who served a tour of duty as U.S. ambassador to India, wrote this article for The New York Times. ]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—I have been reluctant in these last months to speak of the political problems of East Bengal. All of us who have served in India are thought to be partisans of that country as doubtless on occasions we have been.