PINDI MAY BARTER’ BANGLA FOR KASHMIR
THE INDIAN EXPRESS (New Delhi), October 8, 1971PTI - Report From New Delhi
A senior Pakistan diplomat, who has defected to Bangladesh, says the West Pakistani rulers are reconciled to the eventual loss of Bangla Desh but would try to grab Kashmir to placate public opinion in their country. Mr. Humayun Rashid Choudhury, till recently Minister Counsellor and Head of Chancery at the Pakistan High Commission here, also says that West Pakistanis have been whipped up into a\hysteria that India was now to grab their territory and are therefore willing to fight India. Mr. Choudhury was interviewed tonight along with Mr. K. Subrahmanyam, Director of the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, on the All India Radio television by Dr. Mohammed Ayub of the Nehru University.
A senior Pakistan diplomat, who has defected to Bangladesh, says the West Pakistani rulers are reconciled to the eventual loss of Bangla Desh but would try to grab Kashmir to placate public opinion in their country. Mr. Humayun Rashid Choudhury, till recently Minister Counsellor and Head of Chancery at the Pakistan High Commission here, also says that West Pakistanis have been whipped up into a\hysteria that India was now to grab their territory and are therefore willing to fight India. Mr. Choudhury was interviewed tonight along with Mr. K. Subrahmanyam, Director of the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, on the All India Radio television by Dr. Mohammed Ayub of the Nehru University.
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