EDITORIAL: Year after year, as an impersonal routine, an assessment is attempted of the prevailing state of affairs on the Quaid-i-Azam`s birth anniversary. ... All kinds of skilful formulations are used to describe the situationresulting from the fall of Dacca. ... It is claimed with considerable ingenuity that we have become `stronger than before`. Which is sufficient justification to double the size of the administration even though the country has been halved. ...

Nobody seems to mind that all this is putting a strain on the credulity of the people. .

To claim that we have established democratic institutions in the country is absurd. If anything, we have put these institutions ... under greater stress. ... Unemployment and poverty have increased, production has declined and labour has not acquired any sense of security or participation. The same is true of the educational sector... . The most unfortunate thing is that we have learnt no lesson from the disaster of December 1971.EDITORIAL: Year after year, as an impersonal routine, an assessment is attempted of the prevailing state of affairs on the Quaid-i-Azam`s birth anniversary. ... All kinds of skilful formulations are used to describe the situationresulting from the fall of Dacca. ... It is claimed with considerable ingenuity that we have become `stronger than before`. Which is sufficient justification to double the size of the administration even though the country has been halved. ...

Nobody seems to mind that all this is putting a strain on the credulity of the people. .

To claim that we have established democratic institutions in the country is absurd. If anything, we have put these institutions ... under greater stress. ... Unemployment and poverty have increased, production has declined and labour has not acquired any sense of security or participation. The same is true of the educational sector... . The most unfortunate thing is that we have learnt no lesson from the disaster of December 1971.