NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan have accepted a Swiss offer of mediation to end the diplomatic impasse over the repatriation of their respective diplomatic personnel from Dacca and Calcutta, Foreign Office sources said here today [May 11]. … The sources said that Pakistan had originally approached the Swiss Government to use its good offices to break the deadlock in the negotiations with India. … Agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Jessore,] Violation of Pakistan territory and firing on various border posts by armed Indians and saboteurs sent with full logistics support from across the border has been reported from various places in the Jessore sector… . The common pattern is incursion in strength by men sent by the Indians to some border villages inside Pakistan territory who start a burst of mortar and machinegun fire ... and then ... withdraw as soon as Pakistan Army returns fire. …

[Agencies add from Rawalpindi,] Mr Nurul Amin, the Pakistan Democratic Party chief, had a meeting with President Yahya Khan today [May 11] ... [H]e informed the president of the conditions now prevailing in East Pakistan, including the food position, the economic situation and the impediments created in the communications system. … [M]r. Nurul Amin said normalcy was returning fast to the province....

Published in Dawn, May 12th, 2021

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