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