HariSeldon
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well i didnt know the army had lost all 1971 documents. please provide a neutral link to back up the claim.
we didnt need a pretext to arm and train mukthi bahini. we could have shut our borders and still continued arming the mukthi bahini. remember this was 1970s. everyone knew Pakistan was our enemy and whether we had a pretext to arm Mukthi Bahini or not, wouldn't have made a difference. The refugee problem was a reason for direct intervention, not a reason for arming Mukthi Bahini
And after that, we could have just sat back and watched Pakistanis tear each other apart. we could have let it just drag on. And let East Pakistan pull all of pakistan down. that would have been the most effective and efficient way to hurt Pakistan, if that was our sole aim.
Instead we spend our money and sacrificed our soldiers to intervene, so that more innocents don't die. and in the process we actually did Pakistan a favour. we ended their civil war. if we had decided to wait a year before stepping in, it would have caused way more damage to both sides, and less damage to us (since Pak military would have been weaker).
Well all the trouble was in E. PK only. W.PK was insultated. So even if those conditions were to drag on for year, chances were that PA will get upper hand against Mukti Bahini. Also, world powers might have intervened in the mean time. There was talk going on to depute UN ppl on IN-E.PK border area as PK was complaining abt cross border ops by IA.