UNITED NATIONS: …Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, walked out of the Security Council debate on the Indo-Pakistani war today [Dec 15]. Tearing a Security Council document to shreds, he strode from the horseshoe table of the 15-nation-body and paused only at the entrance to the U.N. headquarters to tell newsmen that his Ambassador, Agha Shahi, could represent Pakistan, if necessary. “Why should I waste my time here?” he asked the Council. “I will go back to my country and fight.”

He said he will remain in New York for two or three days to “tell the American people of the great stand of their government” against Soviet support of India in the Security Council. Mr Bhutto said he “implored” Council members to act this morning, informing them that there was hand-to-hand fighting in Dacca… . “Thousands were being killed while the Council was deliberating whether to postpone its meeting for three hours or two hours,” he said.

Declaring he would not agree to surrender to India, Bhutto told newsmen: “I have only reflected this feeling of my country. Rather than being asked to bite the dust here, we have been asked to rub our noses into the ground.” Mr Bhutto declared that he would not be party to a “shameful capitulation” of Pakistan. — News agencies

Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2021