Mr Mohiuddin Ahmed, a Second Secretary at the Pakistan High Commission In London, stood in from of about 10,000 Bengalis in Trafalgar Square yesterday and said that he had decided to give up his job and work for Bangla Desh.

Last year he helped to arrange President Yahya Khan's stay at Claridge's, hotel in London.

He said yesterday: “I have offered my services to the Bangla Desh mission in London. I was working at the High Commission on Friday but I don’t think anyone knew what I was going to do although they may have suspected. I am doing this as much for my own interest as for others. I want to live as an independent citizen in an independent country.

Mr Ahmed, who is 27 and came to Britain in 1969 still has many of his family in East Pakistan. He said he would not name the town which he came from, since this might put his brother, sisters and father in danger.

Mr John Stonehouse, MP. who has visited the refugee camps in India, told the rally that the situation in East Bengal was “the worst man-made disaster since Hitler”.

New York. Aug 1.—A Pakistani diplomat dissociated himself from his Government and predicted on television tonight that up to 15,000,000 people may die of starvation in East Pakistan in the next three months.

Mr Abulmaal Muhith, who has been serving as Economic Counsellor at die Pakistan Embassy in Washington, announced his dissociation on the NBC news programme Comment.

Mr Muhith said the Government was “desperately trying to establish a colony in East Pakistan through a reign of tenor and a massive transfer of officials and labourers from the West”— Reuter.