DISSENSION IN THE MOSLEM LEAGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100100062-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: January 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. 51-4B
DEC 1951 Approved For Release 1999/09/23 : CIA-RDP81-01036R000100100062-2
U.S. Officials Only
SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT 25X1A
COUNTRY Pakistan
SUBJECT Dissension in .the Moslem League
25X1A
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DATE ACQUIRED
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DATE (OF INFO.) 18 Nov 53
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THEMEANING OF TITLE 19. SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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1. Withdrawals from Pakistan'fs Moslem League are primarily due to Mohammed Alits
close association with the West. This is regarded as incompatible with a
developing Pakistani Asiatic policy. Protest is raised, above everything else,
against the construction of a political cofferdam from Pakistan., across
Afghanistan and Iran, to Turkey. Many business people regard such a front
against the Soviet Union as definitely dangerous.
2. Politicians now out of office are also inclined to look askance at the idea of
an "Islamic Republic of Pakistan." They fear that emphasis on the religious
accent in the new state will stir up religious struggles anew with the Hindu
minorities.
3. Tendencies for the Moslem League to break up have also begun to appear in East
Bengal. Pazlul Haq, the old leader of the Moslem League there has made the
following statement on the possibility of reconstruction: "It is wholly impos-
sible for a respectable man either to remain in the Moslem League or to return
to it. I regard Mohammed Alits appeal as absolutely negative's" In the meantime,
Haq has set up a new Peasants and Workers Party (Krishak-Shramic Party).
4. The apparent breakup of the Moslem League is especially serious because it is the
only organization in the country capable of carrying on. There are the following
dangers:
a. Development of an autonomy'movement in the Province of at Bengal, which
is geographically out off completely from the rest of Pakistan.
b. Increase of tension between India and Pakistan.
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