Anubis
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Where on earth did I say that that the West did not want to stay with the East or vice versa ??....A political party based on East Pakistan got the mandate to form the government of United Pakistan....BUT parties based on WEst Pakistan(PPP and the military leadership) opposed the rule of AL because they were Bengalis(Revisiting 1971: The crow is white, Bengal is Pakistan - Blogs - DAWN.COM@Anubis
you already wrote in another comment that "they sent in their army to kill right and left whom ever they wanted". do you really think all those ordinary people are dead by now who witnessed the war firsthand and had interactions with West Pakistani armymen and would have called this statement crazy?
"and if they also considered us(namely you) their own countrymen why on earth did they oppose our rightful rule"
tell me how they opposed the "rule". but as a side note although WPakistanis cannot be shown to have opposed PAL's (Awami League's) election win, they had reason to oppose such mindset you are demonstrating through your words. PAL was supposed to be an elected party forming a government of United Pakistan. but when you put that in language like "us" ruling "them" like we were all kings ruling WPakistani subjects, WPakistanis should have had reasons to oppose. and when we look at the actual subversive activities carried out by extreme leftist elements in the months leading up to March 1971, West Pakistanis should have had reasons to feel concerned about the party that was going to be governing them.
the reasons behind the delay in handing power over to PAL are numerous. not only were East Pakistani masses hopeful about a civilian government, they had also not decided to settle for half of their country. it's in your imagination that East Pakistanis wanted to separate from West Pakistan, or West wanted to separate from East. and extremist elements of PAL including 'Nucleus' had questionable role in the events to say the least. but these are besides the point that India was our enemy and it waged war on us (East Pakistan) through various means:
1) logistical: provided armaments, finances and other tools to extreme leftist PAL elements to destabilize East Pakistan
2) physical: indian agents and trained elements had transgressed into the sovereign soil of East Pakistan long before March 1971 and indian military physically launched invasion of East Pakistan in December 1971
3) colonial: changed the entire constitution and national-provincial framework that we put in place in 1947.
and India won decisively. and it won so comprehensively that today the world encounters parts of the defeated and invaded population actually supports the actions of their enemy conqueror India.
if West Pakistan did not want to remain with East, they would not have spent the life of a single WPakistani-based soldier, or a single penny to root out Indian subversion in the land. or what if West Pakistan really did not want to be together with East (against the latter's wishes)? why was the only alternative of that was to become an Indian-controlled territory?
"tell me how they opposed the "rule". but as a side note although WPakistanis cannot be shown to have opposed PAL's (Awami League's) election win""
Yes they can be shown to have opposed AL's election win....when PPP was supposed to form the opposition party in a democratically elected parliament...instead they decided to side with the military not handing over power to a rightfully elected party....PPP(a west pakistani party) in a democratic country decided to go against a democratically elected government and side with a undemocratic dictatorship to oppose Al's election specifically because AL was headed and controlled by Bengalis.....it always has been us vs them....and it ended that way.