EXCERPTS FROM PRESIDENT YAHYA KHAN'S PRESS CONFERENCE (APRIL 10, 1969)

 

It will be for the representatives of the people to give the country a workable consti­tution. I have no doubt that a constitution worked out in this manner will enjoy the support of the people and will have the acceptability and sanctity which a constitution must have.

 

We, as soldiers, have assumed the responsibility of creating such an atmosphere. That is the maximum that we can hope to achieve. The responsibility of reconstructing healthy political life in the country must be assumed and honourably discharged by the people themselves. The community cannot and must not evade this responsibility.

 

 

(THE DAWN, Karachi, April 11, 1969)

 

 

 

Source: Bangladesh Documents, vol - I, page no - 38-39