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The World of Diplomatic Backstage

De-classification of official documents the might of the United States. Whatever
have been a routine practice in the had been the public posture of various
United States, while just the opposite is politicians and military officers active
true of Pakistan. Successive governments during 1965 and 1973 -- which is the
over the years have believed in hiding relevant period in the context of this
away from public eye even the most book -- they were all in one voice the
innocuous of official documents without moment they reached backstage.The
realizing that the practice only adds to anti-US, anti-West stance of the Pakistan
the sense of national confusion. "I will People's Party, for instance, was quite
expose everybody when the time is right," obvious during the 1970 election
is a sentence that finds place in every campaign, with Bhutto and his cohorts
politician's armory. A case in point is going out of their way to condemn
that of Mohammad Khan Junejo who kept Imperialism. Various notes sent by US
repeating the line in the context of the embassy staff to Washington, however,
Ojhri disaster, but the "right time" show what was going on behind the scene,
never came in his own lifetime.The book, with Bhutto offering private assurances
The American Papers, is a selected bunch in this regard to calm down any frayed
of documents de-classified by the US nerves his campaign may be causing. One
government in recent times, and now of the notes by Ambassador Farland talks
resting at the National Archives II at of a meeting Bhutto had with him in
College Park in Maryland. The documents Peshawar where he had also brought
in the current volume have been drawn Mustafa Khar and Hayat Sherpao, "who
from State and Defense Department files, during political campaign was violently
and focus on the 1965 war, the East anti-US." The ambassador notes: "He
Pakistan crisis of 1971, the breakup of (Bhutto) was quite jovial in
Pakistan, and the first two years of Z.A. acknowledging that Sherpao had been one
Bhutto's rule. The documents, consisting of my principal vilifiers, adding that
of correspondence between the US embassy Sherpao's presence in this meeting
staff in Pakistan and the State indicated that `that chapter' had now
Department, confidential letters to the closed." Not just that, "Bhutto said that
US president, draft replies and minutes he had asked them to come with him to
of high-profile US government policy stress the fact that these two men would
meetings, constitute the thought of serve in their respective areas as the
American diplomats and the US government PPP's principal contact for `Mutual
about events taking place in the Briefings' with US officials."The
subcontinent.The documents give the cynicism and disillusionment that even a
reader a taste of how foreign missions quick glance through the book causes is,
conduct their business, and the quantum indeed, enormous. This is not a book for
of input that the US government has at the faint-hearted. Interestingly,
its disposal before taking any decision. however, when Roedad Khan embarked upon
For instance, a Policy Appraisal airgram this gigantic task, he himself had been
dated February 2, 1971, from the US below his usual self. Jamshed Marker has
embassy in Islamabad to the State this to say in the Introduction: "The
Department in Washington talks of a material in this book was culled by
"hypothesis" which leads to the question: Roedad Khan during a period of enforced
"... will the country split into two medical confinement following a surgical
independent wings, East and West?" The procedure in Washington, D.C. This is an
same document later says, "Keeping unusual form of convalescence, but then
Pakistan together has now become a major all who know Roedad would know that he is
political task ... both parties lack an unusual man ... Roedad's assertion
seasoned leaders except Mujib and Bhutto that his research work formed a
at the top. Both parties have more therapeutic component of his
experience in agitating than in convalescence is a value judgment which
governing."The 14-page appraisal and a is best left to the discernment of the
few more follow-up papers based on reader."The documents, naturally, have
various embassy officials' meetings with the potential to constitute source
key Pakistani figures of the time led to material of immense importance to
the National Security Study Memorandum research scholars, historians, diplomats,
118, dated February 16, 1971, which was students of History and International
issued by the National Security Council, Affairs as well as the general public.
advising the State and Defense Having said that, it must be borne in
departments and the CIA that the mind that these documents have been
"President has directed that an immediate selected from among a large number of
contingency study be made of the papers available, and, as such, any
alternative US postures towards a concrete assessment of any subject that
possible move in the East Pakistan toward has come under discussion in the book
secession." This study was to be will have to be made keeping in view the
completed not later than February 26. All documents that have been left out for
this, mind you, was being actively reasons of brevity or even
discussed when the actual event was still otherwise.While the readers must be
a good ten months away!All this input, grateful to Roedad Khan for having done
naturally, cannot be generated in the what he has, the importance of the
absence of willing and colluding local Introduction written by Jamshed Marker
officials. For instance, the note on must not be forgotten. The 23-page
President Yahya Khan's visit to China in write-up gives the correct context to the
December 1970 repeatedly quotes Tabarak accompanying 985 pages of official
Hussain, who was director-general correspondence. Those who may fall to the
(Socialist countries) at the Ministry of temptation of skipping the Introduction
Foreign Affairs, and had accompanied the and heading straight for the text would
president on the visit. The covering do so at their own cost, for they will be
letter for the detailed note ends thus: making hasty and inexact conclusions.The
"Some of Hussain's comments to the American Papers: Secret and Confidential
reporting officer were made in `strict India, Pakistan, Bangladesh Documents
confidence'. Please protect source."What 1965-1973. Published by Oxford University
might give a feeling of nausea to a Press, Karachi.The writer is a senior
discerning reader are the repeated and Pakistani journalist, associated at
continued assurances handed out to present with the largest circulate
American officials by almost every single English-language newspaper of the
key Pakistani figure -- political or country, the daily Dawn, as its Assistant
otherwise -- of continued allegiance to Editor. He is based in Karachi.




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