Excerpts from The American Papers

Secret and Confidential

India. Pakistan. Bangladesh

Documents 1965-1973

Indroduced by Jamsheed Marker

Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1999

ISBN 0 19 579190 8 PKR 995

(printed with permission)

From the introduction:

The documents contained in this volume were obtained from the United States National Archives in Maryland during the fall of 1998. These records were made available to the public, Linder the American Freedom of Information Act, as they became declassified after a given period of time. They constitute a rich and wide-ranging source of primary material for the historian, the scholar, the researcher, or the merely curious. The papers cover the global activities of the Department of State, and 'whilst a few documents, oh account of their sensitivity continue to remain classified: the overwhelming number are made available for public scrutiny. The plethora of material that is available thus inevitably involves a considerable output of time and effort, for research, and an equally prodigious application of talent and selectivity for compilation. The material in this book was culled by Roedad Khan during a period of enforced medical confinement following a surgical procedure in Washington. DC. This is an unusual form of convalescence, but then all who know Roedad would know that he is an unusual man.