East Pakistan the endgame : an onlooker's journal 1969-1971

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    • Siddiqi, Abdul Rahman

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East Pakistan the endgame : an onlooker's journal 1969-1971

Abdul Rahman Siddiqi

Oxford University Press, 2004

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In March 1971, the military in East Pakistan launched the suicidal attack which was to lead, over nine long months, to the collapse of military strength and civil society in the region. As chief of Inter Services Public Relations and press advisor to both the president and chief martial law administrator, Abdul Rehman Siddiqi was in a position to observe and analyse the developing tragedy in both public and political circles. His account of this traumatic episode is refreshingly free from polemic, observant and candid.

Table of Contents

  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • 1. Enter Yahya
  • 2. Yahya's Manifesto
  • 3. Pre-election Fever: Cyclone Hit East Pakistan
  • 4. Assembly Postponed
  • 5. Run-up to Military Crack Down
  • 6. Towards Parting of the Ways
  • 7. Foreign Newsmen Visit East Pakistan
  • 8. A Curtain Raiser
  • 9. Bitter Harvest of March
  • 10. India's Intensified Propaganda/Military Campaign
  • 11. Countdown to End Game
  • 12. The Balloon Goes Up
  • 13. Epilogue
  • APPENDICES
  • INDEX

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