Department
of State
TELEGRAM
CONFIDENTIAL 475
060755Z JAN 68
FM AMEMBASSY
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 3875
CONFIDENTIAL
B/W
SUBJECT: ARRESTS
REF:
l. Local contact who is District and Sessions judge
and high-grade CSP officer informed ConGen Poloff Jan 4 that he could confirm
arrest of three prominent CSP officers, all Bengalis. He could recall names of
only two:
a. M. R. Qaddus, Vice Principal of Administrative
Staff College,
training institution for civil service officers.
b. Shams-ur-Rehman Khan, CSP officer who had been on
some kind of special
mission to
2. Same source had heard rumor of arrest of Bhutto,
Azam Khan, Awan and Shahab, but could not vouch for correctness of information.
He had learned "reliably" that Pirzada has been offered Supreme Court
justiceship and that Syed Fida Hassan will take over Foreign Affairs portfolio,
at least temporarily.
Of possible interest in view reported Pak security
service interest in wife of D.K. Power, until recently Central Secretary of
Health, Labor and Social welfare (again see NPO 2063) is information from same
Lahore judge that D.K. Power is to be appointed next Principal of
Administrative Staff College, succeeding M.N. Abbasi, who goes to Somali on
some kind of United Nations Commission. Power is Englishborn convert to Islam
naturalized Pakistani. Married to prominent Bengali from
4. Source had no informative remarks to make on
specific reasons for the arrests reported para I except the supposition, based
on their common Bengali origin that they were suspected of involvement in
UNQUOTE OEHLERT
Source:
The American Papers- Secret and Confidential India.Pakistan.Bangladesh
Documents 1965-1973, The University Press Limited, p.247