^Uddin, Sufia M. Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation, Chapel Hill. The University of North Carolina Press. 2006. ISBN 0807830216.
^Ian Talbot. Pakistan: A Modern History. St. Martin's Press. 1998: 190. ISBN 978-0-312-21606-1. It is now clear that Mujib did hold secret discussions with local Indian leaders there in July 1962. Moreover, following the 1965 war there were meetings between Awami League leaders and representatives of the Indian Government at a number of secret locations.
^Ian Talbot. Pakistan: A Modern History. St. Martin's Press. 1998: 193. ISBN 978-0-312-21606-1. When this duly arrived. the western wing's nightmare scenario materialised: either a constitutional deadlock, or the imposition in the whole of the country of the Bengalis' longstanding commitment to unfettered democracy and provincial autonomy.
^Ian Talbot. Pakistan: A Modern History. St. Martin's Press. 1998: 193. ISBN 978-0-312-21606-1. Yahya had made some provision to safeguard the constitutional outcome through the promulgation of the Legal Framework Order (LFO) on 30 March 1970. It set a deadline of 120 days for the framing of a constitution by the National Assembly and reserved to the President the right to authenticate it.
^Ian Talbot. Pakistan: A Modern History. St. Martin's Press. 1998: 194. ISBN 978-0-312-21606-1. It would also have to enshrine the following five principles: an Islamic ideology...and internal affairs and the preservation of the territorial integrity of the country
^Ian Talbot. Pakistan: A Modern History. St. Martin's Press. 1998: 194. ISBN 978-0-312-21606-1. He also refused to countenance intelligence service reports both of Mujib's aim to tear up the LFO after the elections and establish Bangladesh and of India's growing involvement in the affairs of East Pakistan.
^Ian Talbot. Pakistan: A Modern History. St. Martin's Press. 1998: 193. ISBN 978-0-312-21606-1. From November 1969 until the announcement of the national election results, he discounted the possibility of an Awami League landslide in East Pakistan.