Our Government has asked India to use restraint, meaning restraint from activities that would escalate the crisis in East Pakistan or provoke war there. Yet, our Government is doing the very thing it is asking India not to do. It is still supplying arms to Pakistan, which could escalate the crisis and provoke war.

The different echelons of our Government may justify each other's actions about shipments of arms to Pakistan after the declared ban on such shipments. But how do we look to the world? Why would the world take our excuse to justify such shipments? And how will India receive our advice for restraint?

It is time for our Government to show a sincere desire to stop the crisis in East Pakistan. Acting, as Senator Frank Church suggested, to halt the present shipment of arms would be an example.

A. K. AZIZ