To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

[Mujib Rahman] is mad, mad! And they're all mad, the press included, who repeat after him, "Three million dead, three million dead!" The Indians had let out the figure of one million. He came along and doubled it. Then tripled it. It's a characteristic of the man - he'd done the same for the hurricane.

I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

I felt certain uneasiness, a strange sensation, which had comic to a head. Every evening I went to Yahya to report that Mujib [Rahiman] and I weren't making any progress, and Yahya [Khan] showed no interest. He looked away or complained about the television or grumbled because he couldn't listen to his favorite songs - his records hadn't arrived from Rawalpindi.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.