CHUADANGA, Pakistan, April 5 (AP)—Resistance leaders here said today that the followers of Shiek Mujibur Rahman were holding onto stretches of East Pakistan along the border with India and that they would fight stani army.

It appeared that the army of President Yahya, trying to prevent this province of 75 million people from seceding and becoming an independent nation, was in control of the major cities, including Dacca, the capital.

Reports received in this command post of the southwestern sector of the forces of Sheik Mujib, who is believed to be in a West Pakistani jail, said the army was trying to regain control of the district city of Jessore, 40 miles to the southeast.

Maj. Mohammad Abu Osman, identified as one of the two ‐commanders of the East Pakistani resistance forces, proclaimed a policy of harassment and starvation against the West Pakistanis and declared:

“If they surrender we will let them go. If not, we will butcher them all.”

He asserted that the southwest sector of the province, comprising 25 million Bengalis in an area shaped like a half moon in a curve of the Ganges River, was totally “liberated” except for Khulna and the entrenchment of the Pakistani army on the outskirts of Jessore.