16th December 1971: From East Pakistan to Bangladesh

[Fasih Khan]

Awami League proposed to celebrate the 100th birth anniversy together with pakistan of Some Poet of Pakistan. Is it Faiz Ahmed Faiz??

Lolz Not Buddy .... Not Faiz ... He's Not that Old ... Probably Dr. Muhammad Allama Iqbal.

 

[lonelyone]

Bangladesh has not prospered. After independence, Sheikh Mujib with his socialist policies totally destroyed the country from top to bottom. All industries, universities, etc. were destroyed due to his and his party's mismanagement and corruption. Of course, after his rapist nephew raped some wife of a army officer Sheikh Mujib, his rapist nephew and all his family was killed in a coup by that officer.

Of course on the positive side we don't have suicide bombs exploding every day, and on that front we're better than Pakistan. But we now import machines from Pakistan, which we used to make ourselves when we were East Pakistan. sad situation.

 

[eastwatch]

Oh…U Ignorant!! What they have in Bengal is not Pakistan Movement but “Bengali Muslim Identification” one to secure their rights from sheer Bengali Hindus in United Bengal which was divided by Brits in 1905 and nothing else.

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The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan (Urdu: تحریک پاکستا&#1606 refers to the independence movement of Pakistan from the British Indian empire and its emergence as a sovereign country. It has its origins in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (present day Uttar Pradesh). Muslims there were a minority, yet their elite had a disproportionate amount of representation in the civil service and overall influence. The idea of Pakistan began from this part of Northern India, from the elite of this region to popular following and then onwards to the rest of India.
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Encyclopedia of Canada's peoples - Google Books

It only becomes Pakistan Movement When in 1930 IQBAL gave his famous Khutab-e-Allahbad.

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I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.
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^ Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address, from Columbia University site

Don’t put yourself into someone’s *** unless you are a ****.

No menifestos, placards, poems, night dreams or Bayans by the north Indians were responsible for the creation of Pakistan. Muslims of Bengal and Bihar were mostly resposible for the Pakistan Movement and creation of Pakistan. You have to understand that all the Provinces of today's Pakistan had voted for Muslim League in the Provincial election that was held in 1946.

It was only Bengal where Muslim League was given a majority seats in that election. It was Calcutta where the then Chief Minister H.S. Suhrawardy went for a 'Direct Action Day' to prove that Hindus and Muslims are two different people. All the present day Provinces of Pakistan voted for CONGRESS.

So, your forefathers were not in favour of creating Pakistan. But, Bengalis were ahead of you. We voted for Muslim League. It was this Province that pursued the British that a partition was needed. Moreover, All-India Muslim League itself was formed in Dhaka in 1912(?).

Note also that the Lahore Resolution of 1940 was proclaimed by the then Chief Minister of Bengal, Fazlul Haque. After this bold declaration the participants bestowed him with slogans like Sher-e-Bangal Zindabad. He is still called by Sher-e-Bangal in Bangladesh. But, why it was him to proclaim that resolution? It was because he was the only Muslim League Chief Minister in the British India.

Please read a proper history book and do not try to indulge on fabricating that unjustly disfavours people in Bengal who had more contribution than your people to create Pakistan. However you try, you will not be able to erase the sacrifice that Bengali Muslims made to form Pakistan.

 

[integra]

^^^ Muslim league was formed in Dacca during 1906 not 1912.

 

[Al-zakir]

Why didn't we keep the name East Pakistan since we led the movement and created Pakistan? I am curious.

 

[integra]

^^our role had more to do with initiating a movement,
anyways maybe bacause Bangladesh sounds more Bangla.
(actually I'm not sure, spare my ignorance but Urdu and Hindi always sounds similar to me)

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Why didn't we keep the name East Pakistan since we led the movement and created Pakistan? I am curious.

You wanted to keep East Pakistan? Your are a rare Bangladeshi...

 

[Al-zakir]

^^our role had more to do with initiating a movement,
anyways maybe bacause Bangladesh sounds more Bangla.
(actually I'm not sure, spare my ignorance but Urdu and Hindi always sounds similar to me)

If you talking about Bollywood movie and song then it's actually Urdu however if you listen to Man Mohan singh then it's Hindi.

Urdu use more Farsi and Arabic words while real Hindi full of Sanskrit.

 

[Al-zakir]

You wanted to keep East Pakistan? Your are a rare Bangladeshi...

What was wrong with the name East Pakistan. Pakistan simply mean land of pure.

 

[integra]

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[Skies]

I have some little cousins and sisters. They are in class 5 or 6. When they talk to each other they prefer to talk in Hindi. Though they have no idea about Urdu which has got more and more beautiful words than Hindi. I asked them why do you talk in Hindi. They told me that they simply like Hindi more than Bangla, because they think Hindi is more beautiful and rhythmic. Though Bangla is also rich for having large amount to vocabulary, and it is also possible to talk with rhythms in Bangla too. But I think it's easier to talk rhythmically in Urdu than Bangla. Also I think, due to having lack of vocabulary of Bangla words they cannot enjoy Bangla well as like Hindi or urdu.

Anyway, after knowing their preference for Hindi I have understood that there can not be any obligatory reason to have more love for Bangla. Someone can prefer Hindi or Urdu or English more if s/he founds that more sweet and interesting. We can not blame them. This is completely their personal choice.

 

[LaBong]

Lol and some of Bangladeshis say we in Calcutta speak Hindi. Granted we are multilingual, but at-least kids here don't speak in a language which is not native!

I think Bangladeshis should start learning Urdu/Hindi and name their country Pakistan/East Pakistan.

 

[akash57]

Why didn't we keep the name East Pakistan since we led the movement and created Pakistan? I am curious.

Lol and some of Bangladeshis say we in Calcutta speak Hindi. Granted we are multilingual, but at-least kids here don't speak in a language which is not native!

I think Bangladeshis should start learning Urdu/Hindi and name their country Pakistan/East Pakistan.

To be perfectly honest, I personally would not mind if the country was still called East Pakistan or if Urdu was still taught, and this isn't because I'm ashamed or Bangladesh and Bangla or anything like that, but just because it was US who leaded Tehreek-e-Pakistan and I personally find Urdu to be an easy language to learn if you already speak Bangla. But anyways, that's just my two cents, I'm not going to declare war on the BDeshi govt. or anything to change it or add Urdu the curriculum.. yet

 

[LaBong]

To be perfectly honest, I personally would not mind if the country was still called East Pakistan or if Urdu was still taught, and this isn't because I'm ashamed or Bangladesh and Bangla or anything like that, but just because it was US who leaded Tehreek-e-Pakistan and I personally find Urdu to be an easy language to learn if you already speak Bangla. But anyways, that's just my two cents, I'm not going to declare war on the BDeshi govt. or anything to change it or add Urdu the curriculum.. yet

I never been to Bangladesh, but if we go by this forum, you guys don't sound Bengali at all. You should name your country Pakistan or Bangistan(as proposed historically). There was a proposal from WB state govt to GoI to remove the West part and rename our state as Bengal, they should once again take up the issue to GoI.

Yes Urdu/Hindi is easy if you know Bengali, as both were evolved from Prakrit. So Bangladeshis already have an advantage in learning Urdu.

 

[ifesvr]

I thought the name Pakistan was derived as explained by many from their provinces of Punjab, Afghan areas, Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan.