PAKISTAN: Polishing a Tarnished Image

"We have been maligned," declared the Pakistani armed forces intelligence chief, Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan. The general's complaint, delivered to half a dozen foreign journalists in Karachi, concerned the widespread reports of army brutality in the effort to crush the seven-week-old Bengali rebellion in East Pakistan. Incensed by what it describes as "concocted items put out by foreign press and radio," the government staged a series of briefings and a fast four-day helicopter tour of the East to get the "correct" story across.

Peace Committee. The West Pakistani government has good...

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