PAKISTAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00875R001100100010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 29, 1971
• Content Type: IM

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USAID review completed OCI No. 0985/71
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of intelligence
29 March 1971
State Dept. review completed
PAKISTAN
(Situation as of 1200 EST)
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1. The situation in Dacca appears to be rela-
tively quiet. According to instructions issued
yesterday on Dacca Radio, curfew was to have been
lifted from 0100 to 1700 East Pakistani time today.
Maztial law authorities announced today a system
of passes to let some government workers and foreign
diplomats move more freely around the city. The US
consul general reported that an estimated 25 percent
of workers at the Government of East Pakistan
Secretariat were on duty today.
2. The status of the government's Dacca Radio
is uncertain. The US Consulate in Calcutta reported
late Monday that Dacca Radio had not been heard
since 0800 Calcutta time (2130 EST, 28 March). The
clandestine radio of East Pakistan, however, had
been heard at 1310 and at 1700 Calcutta time. The
radio urged Bengalis to resist the enemy and claimed
that "liberation forces" had attacked the Dacca
radio station.,
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4. The situation outside of Dacca remains
unclear. The clandestine radio operating in East
Pakistan has claimed that forces loyal to Mujibur
Rahman control Chittagong, Rangpur, and Jessore,
and Indian radio says that West Pakistani troops
attacked the town of Kushtia on the night of 28
March. Indian news reports also claim that some
US citizens, presumably working for AID, who had
been working on an irrigation project in Kushtia,
were killed Sunday in a bombing raid, but there
has been no confirmation of these reports.
5. Radio Pakistan says the situation in the
port city of Chittagong is "improving." The
Indian deputy high commissioner in Dacca has told
US officials there that a Major Gia of the East
Pakistan Rifles (possibly the person variously
referred to as Zia and Jia, who allegedly is head-
ing the provisional government of Bangla Desh) had
rallied Bengali forces and controlled Chittagong
Friday and early Saturday. The Indian official
said that the clandestine radio operating from
East Pakistan had originated in Chittagong. Heavy
fighting apparently took place there Saturday,
with perhaps three battalions of the Pakistan Army
sent in as reinforcements and the Pakistan Air
Force supporting the operation. An air force
officer told an AID employee that West Pakistani
troops are now in control of key points of the
city, but several pockets of resistance remain.
6. In India, meanwhile, there has been in-
creasing pressure Lo recognize the provisional
government of Bengla Desh. On 29 March, Prime
Minister Gandhi agreed to move a resolution in
the Indian Parliament offering unanimous support
i-n the "freedom struggle" of the East Pakistanis.
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