EDITORIAL : A HARD PRESSED REGIME
THE INDONESIAN OBSERVER (Jakarta) October 7, 1971
Time is fast running out for Pakistan’s military regime under General Yahya Khan as the combined forces of public opinion in the world as well as within the country itself exert great pressure for political economic reforms. Yahya Khan’s desperate attempt to avert his country’s total bankruptcy by announcing general amnesty and the replacement of East Pakistan’s military governor by a civilian has not aroused the least interest among the 9 million refugees from East Pakistan in India. The Pakistan President has not touched the essential core of the problem in promising a Lenient attitude towards the refugees. He did not mention about the future legislature of Pakistan as result of the general elections of last December in which the Awami League achieved an overwhelming victory.
Time is fast running out for Pakistan’s military regime under General Yahya Khan as the combined forces of public opinion in the world as well as within the country itself exert great pressure for political economic reforms. Yahya Khan’s desperate attempt to avert his country’s total bankruptcy by announcing general amnesty and the replacement of East Pakistan’s military governor by a civilian has not aroused the least interest among the 9 million refugees from East Pakistan in India. The Pakistan President has not touched the essential core of the problem in promising a Lenient attitude towards the refugees. He did not mention about the future legislature of Pakistan as result of the general elections of last December in which the Awami League achieved an overwhelming victory.
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