More Bangladesh diplomats defect

Surrendered Pakistan General Niazi and General Rao Farman Ali taken to Kolkata from Dhaka by a special chartered flight The number of arrested Pakistani troops is 65,670 till the night of December 19, a spokesperson of Indian army’s eastern command announced. Another 8,000 troops detained in Chittagong garrison. And 20,000 other Pakistani bureaucrats, police also detained. A few diplomats acknowledge their allegiance to Bangladesh today – Ehsanul Kabir, economic minister of Pakistan embassy in London; Muslehuddin Ahmad, commercial councillor in Paris, and Khairul Anam, second secretary in Brussels.

December 20, 1971 ABP Archives (Summary)