Fall of Dhaka: Memories of a bloody December

[Riyad]

Its VICTORY DAY, not Independence Day.

Awami League leader receiving plate from Indian army in Kolkata.

Mother of a martyred Indian soldier receiving honor.

 

[asad71]

When R&AW beat the ISI at its own game during Liberation of Bangladesh.
An Indian agent of R&AW, Hashum Qureshi in Srinagar was working in league with the BSF. In Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, a Pakistan sponsored terrorist organization, launched the Al-Fatah organization for liberation from J&K from India. 36 of these members were arrested by J&K Police with the help of Indian Intelligence Agencies. In order to get more inside information, R&AW decided to infiltrate Qureshi into this organization has he had knowledge of the terrain of ***.

But he changed his integrity when he was sent to *** and was won over by the Pakistani Intelligence, the ISI. He was given training to hijack a plane by a former Pakistani pilot. When he was sent to India back the BSF arrested him and he spilled the beans upon interrogation. What was his plan?

The plan was to hijack plane which would be piloted by Rajiv Gandhi, son of Mrs. Indira Gandhi then Prime Minister of India. When this startling disclosure was reported to the head of the head of BSF and R&AW, India decided to beat Pakistan at it’s own game and yes, we won!

R&AW and BSF persuaded Qureshi to work for them in order to save him from execution by Indian Authorities. Plan was Qureshi would hijack an Indian Airlines aircraft flying from Srinagar to Lahore and where he would demand the release of 36 members of the Al-Fatah who were in jail in India in lieu of the passengers on the plane.



A Fokker Friendship aircraft, Ganga of the Indian Airlines which was retired already from Indian Airlines was inducted for this operation. The plane was hijacked and he was allowed a toy pistol and a fake grenade inside the plane. Pakistani authorities at Lahore allowed the plane to land when there were informed that it had been hijacked by National Liberation Front of ***. All India Radio soon made the broadcast of this hijacking.

The whole world was informed that the Pakistani Government was behind this hijacking. Later he demanded (As Planned) release of 36 Al-Fatah members in the custody of India to which India declined. Qureshi was given political asylum and hailed him as a Freedom Fighter in Pakistan. He spoke to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Later the passengers of the plane came by road to India and the plane was burned by Pakistan.

Why did India execute this operation? Indian government banned all the flights of Pakistan flying over our territory and it exposed that Pakistani state openly and actively supported terrorists. The truth was known to Pakistan that they were agents of the Indian Government.



Pakistan was trying to curb the civil unrest in East Pakistan by using civil flights to send resources. The shortest air route between east and west Pakistan was from Indian Air Space. Any other air route without using India air space was at least 3 times long and triple time/fuel consuming as shown by the above image. Pakistan had to go around India, via Sri Lanka. The hijacking greatly slowed down the arrival of Pakistani Army through Air Route. This was a master stroke of R&AW during the 1971 war for liberation of Bangladesh by India.

How R&AW played a Key Role for the Indian Navy during 1971 war.
The Indian Navy celebrates December 4th as Navy Day, it is on this day that India had a strategic Naval victory over Pakistan by rendering its financial capital, Karachi’s port useless as it was completely destroyed. Known as Op. Trident, these operations saw the first use of anti-ship missiles in the region, second Worldwide and first sinking of naval vessels in the region since World War II.



In the above image, Indian carrier Vikrant played a key role in enforcing a naval blockade over East Pakistan. The Navy ensured both the West and East Pakistan had a naval blockade.

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This would not have been possible without the valuable intel from R&AW. It all started when the Defence Minister prior to 1971 war called R.N Rao where Chief of Naval Staff was sitting with him to South Bock. It was discussed that if hostilities would start with Pakistan, Indian Navy would attack the Karachi harbour so that enemy’s navy be bottled up from harassing our ship movement in the Arabian sea. Naval Chief had intel that Pakistan had put up new defences to guard the entrance of the harbour on the near by cliffs and Navy had no intel after that at all.

R&AW happily accepted for the job and few days later came up with a plan involving specialists from the Photo Laboratory of R&AW, Murty. It was found that a Parsee doctor on a B.I ship periodically sailed from Bombay to Karachi port and was ready to help them. Roa and Murty with cover names as Rod and Moriarty sailed two days later on the Doctor’s ship. Before the ship entered Karachi, doctor arranged to take their equipment and get Rod and Moriarty admitted in the ship’s sick bay as patients.

At the entrance of the Karachi harbour, Karachi CID personnel boarded and ordered the Captain to bring all Indian passengers before them. He noticed two passengers were missing and when informed they were down with Chicken Pox, he beat a hasty retreat and left.

The pilot, thereafter, took the ship between the two cliffs of the entry point which guarded the narrow entrance to the harbour. While our Indian operatives photographed everything, including the fortification and gun mountings with powerful Telephoto Lenses. While going in, Sick Bay was on the port side and while sailing out the harbour, the sick bay was on the other side of the cliff which was again photographed.

The Indian Naval Chief and his aides were as much as amazed and satisfied with the Intelligence. Some months later, when War broke out, Indian Naval Boats beat the hell out of the fortifications of the harbour and bottled the enemy’s Navy!



INS Nipat (K86), INS Nirghat (K89) andINS Veer (K82) from the 25th “Killer” Missile Boat Squadron, escorted by two anti-submarine Arnala class corvettes, INS Kiltan (P79) and INS Katchall (P81), and a fleet tanker, INS Poshak.

R&AW and the Indian Navy working together and crushed the enemy with Indian Navy ships reporting not a single loss while the Karachi port was burning, while Minesweeper PNS Muhafiz sunk, Destroyer PNS Khaibar sunk, Transport, MV Venus Challenger, sunk, Destroyer PNS Shah Jahan badly damaged, scrapped as result and Karachi harbour fuel storage tanks destroyed and more than 100+ sailors killed and reports of more than 500+ were badly injured.

Surrender ceremony photoshaped by Indians erasing presence of our rep, Gp Cap Khandokar.

 

[DRDO KALI 10000]

but i wonder why owr bangladeshi friends havent given any inputs yet

@Luffy 500 @bongbang @monitor @MBI Munshi @Riyad @Saiful Islam @asad71

I feel they have nothing to show from there side
JOKING !

Indians are openly accepting that they were and are supporting terrorism in neighboring countries.
Peace of Asia rests in the division of India.

 

[GURU DUTT]

I feel they have nothing to show from there side
JOKING !

or maybe they do love there nation so much that they dont want to .. khair janne do you know what i mean

Indians are openly accepting that they were and are supporting terrorism in neighboring countries.
Peace of Asia rests in the division of India.

as many pakistanies here say "one mans terrorist is other mans freedom fighter" if you know what i mean

 

[Windjammer]

only upto 6 persons can be tagged at once. I see windfuuker left from your list, you should invite him personally, His expert opinion is very precious.

I must have kicked it very hard ....no wonder it's turned KALI.

 

[DRDO KALI 10000]

as many Pakistanis here say "one mans terrorist is other mans freedom fighter" if you know what i mean

Its totally Pakistan's fault had they let Mujib, there Valid PM elected through democratic process to occupy seat.

Bangladesh would never had born for India or East pakistan would never had died for poor pakistan.

So, whose fault ?
Still they doing same with Balouchistan and FATA, but India (RAW) is the Guilty

I must have kicked it very hard ....no wonder it's turned KALI.

Welcom a$$Jammer !

 

[Maarkhoor]

Welcom a$$Jammer !

@waz

 

[GURU DUTT]

Its totally Pakistan's fault had they let Mujib, there Valid PM elected through democratic process to occupy seat.

Bangladesh would never had born for India or East pakistan would never had died for poor pakistan.

So, whose fault ?
Still they doing same with Balouchistan and FATA, but India (RAW) is the Guilty


Welcom a$$Jammer !

thats becuase they(pakistani security & ruling elite) themselfs never were serous about sharing power with anyone ... look at there nation and its corrupt to bone ruling elite, burocracy & judiciary what has changed ... there tarzianigars on there TV shows still mock at the fact and is the main reson they never allow any de centralization of power lolzz they even want to keep the powers of recruiting police or even a peon

I must have kicked it very hard ....no wonder it's turned KALI.

salaam jammer bhiyye thread mera hai aapke huzoor me ghustak ki iltejja hai ki is mauzoo per tabadal e khayal kerne ki zehmat ata farmaye

 

[Windjammer]

Its totally Pakistan's fault had they let Mujib, there Valid PM elected through democratic process to occupy seat.

Bangladesh would never had born for India or East pakistan would never had died for poor pakistan.

So, whose fault ?
Still they doing same with Balouchistan and FATA, but India (RAW) is the Guilty


Welcom a$$Jammer !

Total crap..... get to know some facts before smearing the forum.
Mujib was invited to assume the power but this short sighted person wanted to shift all to East Pakistan.... the Capital, the State Bank and even the Naval HQ.....why couldn't he just run the affairs from Islamabad.

 

[Psychic]

virtually cleaned up all of Chittagong before the war was declared officially on Dec.

What a BS...These rats along with their Mukti brethren were hunted down and eventually kicked out of Chittagong by PA despite the difficulties and lack of numbers.

 

[Windjammer]

Ironically no one ever talks about the war in the Western theatre, where thousands of Indian soldiers had surrendered even before the fall of Dacca.

 

[gslv mk3]

Ironically no one ever talks about the war in the Western theatre, where thousands of Indian soldiers had surrendered even before the fall of Dacca.

'Thousands

 

[GURU DUTT]

Ironically no one ever talks about the war in the Western theatre, where thousands of Indian soldiers had surrendered even before the fall of Dacca.

what about it do i have to tell you how 120 men with WW2 vintage self loading rifels and couple of MMGs and an RCL gun of indian armies punjab/ sikh regiment holded 2000+ pakistani soldiers with chinese version of kalashnikoves and almost a full regiment of tanks and some 40 other vehicels which were shot like duck in the wee hours of monring by owr IAF fighter aircrafts

 

[gslv mk3]

what about it do i have to tell you how

Ask him about the land Pakistan lost in the western sector.

 

[Windjammer]

'Thousands

Obviously it's beyond your moronic ability to comprehend that this is just one POW camp.

what about it do i have to tell you how 120 men with WW2 vintage self loading rifels and couple of MMGs and an RCL gun of indian armies punjab/ sikh regiment holded 2000+ pakistani soldiers with chinese version of kalashnikoves and almost a full regiment of tanks and some 40 other vehicels which were shot like duck in the wee hours of monring by owr IAF fighter aircrafts

And what if i post pictures of over 50 Indian soldiers surrendering to a single PA pilot and how an Indian GOC abandoned his Jeep and troops and hid in a field.....but obviously that's not a part you are told or want to except...