March 16, 1971 BANGABANDHU CALLS ON YAHYA Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman met President Yahya Khan this morning. He arrived at the President's House in a car flying a black flag to mourn the death of those killed during the ongoing non-cooperation movement. It was an hourlong discussion. There were no aides on either side. Yahya started the discussion with explanation for
March 14, 1971 BHUTTO'S DEMAND FOR TRANSFER OF POWER Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, said today at a public meeting in Karachi that if power was to be transferred to the people before any constitutional settlement, as demanded by Bangabandu, it should be transferred to the Awami League in the East and the PPP in the West. He was quoted as saying
East Pakistan judges, from the region’s Chief Justice down, yesterday [March 8] refused to swear in Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan, President Yahya Khan’s new choice for Military Governor, as the de facto Awami
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In the very first general elections of Pakistan held in December 1970, the Awami League won an absolute majority in the National Assembly. But for the Pakistani military junta as well as the Pakistan People s Party head Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the desire to retain control of the central government took precedence over the need to abide by democratic norms. The central government paid no heed to the Six Point demands presented by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1966, the implementation of which would have eradicated the economic and political disparities suffered by the Bengali majority since the inception of Pakistan. The Pakistani ruling minority became anxious about the Six-Point demands after the landslide victory of the Awami League. President Yahya Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the senior military generals became involved in machinations to prevent a political party led by Bengali politicians from forming the government in Pakistan.