Letter from Multan

Re: # 3
so how do the officials explain this? I know it is not their fault, but I wonder how they see it.

Yes, we know it`s a tricky issue. It requires someone with a vision and foresight, someone who can lift himself up and see the larger human picture to resolve this. For we just want to know- If Maj Ghosh`s photo came as a Prisoner in pakistan, then logically there has tobe an answer towhere he went. Similarly maj Suri`s letter.

What we have found is that Air Force and Army officers who were repatriated and who had told us they had been in certain jails here, we have not found their records either in 1971 and 1972- basically records of military persons are kept separate.

As you said, it is important to keep the reality in mind.

Governments usually don`t go back from their statements particularly in international/trans-border issues.

There is hardly any chance that POWs, whose case has been discussed in public media and the responsible govt. have denied their existence; will be shown now which brings down the credibility of not only the govt., but the whole nation gets maligned at international level. Leave aside the Pakistan govt., even the Indian govt. has not done anything constructive in theis regard since 1971.

The whole exercise may turn out to be just an eye-wash.

Forgive me for sounding so negative, but this is because of the apathy of the govts. on both sides.

Dear writer,

I sincerely hope and pray for your success.

Regards

Arif