AGARTALA, India, Nov. 11, —The Sector 3 headquarters of the guerrilla forces fighting the Pakistani Army for the independence of East Pakistan is an idyll of wooded hills and streams that straddles the border between East Pakistan and the Indian territory of Tripura.

Although it is accessible from the Indian side, by the time a visitor reaches the headquarters at the end of a slow, precarious jeep drive along a wellworn bridle path, he is not sure whether he is on Indian territory or in Pakistan.

“You can say it's a no man's land,” said a guide who led the way to his commandant.

The commandant, a lieutenant colonel sitting in a tall rocking chair, looked typical of the thousands of young men who display zeal and ferocity when talking about their goal, and whose ranks are swelling.

“The West Pakistani army is 24 years old and ours is only seven months old,” said the commandant, who asked that he not be identified by name. “But I swear to God we shall take them on any time in any strength.”

Talking to the commandant and other leaders of the force known as Mukti Bahini, the Bengal liberation army, one gets the impression that their group, generally regarded by outsiders as loose and undisciplined, is now fairly well organized along the lines of the Indian or Pakistani armies.

Each sector commander is assigned a specific area in East Pakistan to be liberated. Sector 3 has jurisdiction over an area that stretches as far as Dacca, the capital of East Pakistan. Among the recent guerrilla exploits in this sector was the seizure of the town of Kasba, about 15 miles southwest across the border from here. There have been several ambushes as well as sabotage of Pakistani military installations.

The credit for liberating a 40‐square‐mile wedge near Belonia, 60 miles south of here, last Tuesday, goes to Sector 1. So does the credit for the guerrilla activities in Chittagong port.

There are four or five sectors along the Tripura border and nine or ten along the Assam and West Bengal borders—each virtually autonomous.

The high command of the guerrilla army, somewhere in the northern part of East Pakistan, is staffed by men who are retired from the Pakistani Army. Some of them are leaders of the banned Awami League, the party that spearheaded the autonomy movement in East Pakistan when the Pakistani military moved to suppress it in March.

The guerrilla force is the military wing of the People's Republic of Bangla Desh (Bengal Nation), the rebel government formed by the Awami League leaders. This government functions mostly from Calcutta and has representatives in major capitals of the world. Most of them are Bengali defectors from Pakistani diplomatic missions.

Neither the rebel government nor its military command seems to direct the operations of the troops in the field. The sector commanders make the decisions. They draw up all plans and strategy.

According to an Indian official source here, so far the guerrillas have been most effective with hit‐and‐run raids against the Pakistani Army. They say these raids have led to severe reprisals in which the army has burned entire villages suspected of harboring guerrillas.

Only recently the guerrillas have started to seize — and hold — small enclaves with the help of Indian shelling, the Indian source said. Indian officials describe these shellings as counteractions against Pakistani attacks.

Indian officers deny any knowledge of the presence of guerrillas in their territory. Nor do they admit to having provided arms and artillery cover for guerrilla offensives, as charged by the Pakistani Government.

In Tripura, at least, there was little evidence to show that the Indian Government was providing a sizable amount of arms or training facilities to the guerrillas.

Guerrilla sources say that they are getting “some support” from India “but not as much as we need.”

The Indians say that the rebels have enough arms, vehicles, artillery and other equipment, captured from Pakistani troops.

Rebel leaders frequently, come to Agartala to establish contact with the liaison office of the Bangla Desh government here. Ostensibly they to look after the refugees in the Indian camps. However, these leaders are said to be recruiting young refugees for the army.

Col. M. A. Rabb, the chief of the rebel army staff, is reported to make frequent visits. In a recent interview he said his forces were well‐enough equipped to take on the 70,000 Pakistani troops in East Pakistan.

“We started from scratch just seven months ago,” he said “Today we are on a better footing and are well organized

“It's no mean achievement,” he went on, “that within this short period our men have been able to do so much damage to the Pakistani Army. Our soldiers and guerrillas have fought against full battalions of Pakistanis, and have cut off their supply lines and in many places pinned them down to their can cantonments,” he said.

“We're thinking of operating on a bigger scale to storm the cantonments,” he said.

Much of this talk may be merely the talk of a military leader who is also a politician. The 50‐year‐old colonel is an Awami League member who was elected to the provincial assembly last December.

An Indian military official here said he thought the rebels were bound to succeed eventually.

“They have done much better than the Vietcong, with far less resources,” he said.

He added that almost the entire population of East Pakistan was supporting the guerillas. eports that tens of thousands