KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug. 5 —The Pakistani Government, which has been stung by accusations that the army killed thousands of people when it moved to crush the Bengali separatist movement in East Pakistan, said today that the separatists themselves were responsible for thousands of deaths.

In a white paper, the Government asserted that 100,000 men, women and children had died since March 1 in a “reign of terror unleashed by the Awami League,” the now banned political party that pressed for autonomy and then independence.

A summary of the white paper said it “unfolds, for the first time, the story of mass massacres and brutalities; which assumed the character of a political genocide, by the Awami League cadres and the rebels of the East Bengal Regiment and East Pakistan Rifles against fellow Pakistanis in areas which came temporarily under their control.”

Brutalities Are Charged

The paper said the Awami League also caused “incalculable damage to public and private buildings, transport and communications and industrial establishments.”

“Unmentionable brutalities were committed with the active assistance of Indian armed infiltrators,” it declared.

The Awami League, which won 167 out of 313 national Assembly seats in last year's elections and thus would have controlled the Assembly had it ever met, was banned on March 26 and its leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, was arrested

The East Bengal Regiment was part of the Pakistan Army and the East Pakistan Rifles were a paramilitary force.

The white paper contends that it provides a full account of the events that led to the present crisis in East Pakistan.

It says the crisis “arose from the failure of the elected representatives of the people to reach a consensus on the essentials of a federal constitution, due to the attitude of the Awami League leadership which sought to escalate a mandate of autonomy into a move for secession,”

The white, paper said the Awami League's “hardcore leadership sought to carry out its designs through constitutional contrivances, organized terror and Indian collusion.”

The white paper said President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan went as far as he could in negotiations to help create conditions for transferring power to elected representatives.

Escalated Their Demands

“Sheik Mujibur Rahman and the other leaders of the Awami League, However, progressively escalated their demands, with complete disregard for the fact that their mandate was for autonomy within a federation, even in terms of the league's own six‐point program,” the paper said.

During the negotiations, the white paper said, “reports had become available of the Awami League's plans to launch armed rebellion in the early hours of March 26.”

The paper said: “But the Pakistan Army took the initiative on the night of March 25‐26 few hours before the Awami League was to strike, and foiled the secessionist bid to break up the country.”

It was “to preserve the integrity of Pakistan that the President ordered the armed forces into action, who struck pre‐emptive blows barely a few hours before the Awami League's planned armed up rising and launching of the ‘Independent Republic of Bangla Desh,’” the paper said.