India’s nefarious role to break up Pakistan in 1971

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India’s nefarious role to break up Pakistan in 1971
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Dr. Junaid Ahmad |

The genesis of the creation of Bangladesh can be traced back to the feeling in the entire Indian leadership, be it the Indian National Congress or the Hindu rightist (communalist) parties that believed and/or still believe that the partition of British India would be a temporary and a short-lived event.

“India accepted the partition with the conviction that the new state was not viable and would collapse in a short time”.
– Jawaharlal Nehru

This was not even a hidden desire but was openly expressed on many occasions. Gandhi in his address of July 1947 to Congress Party of Bengal said, “Congress was opposed to Pakistan” and that he was one of those who had “steadfastly opposed the division of India”.

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Similarly, Nehru, on the eve of partition remarked, “India accepted the partition with the conviction that the new state was not viable and would collapse in a short time”. Similar sentiments were expressed by other leaders such as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Acharya Kirplani, Sardar Valebhai Patel and a lot of other leaders and organizations like All India Congress Committee, Hindu Mahasabha, etc. These initial desires of the Indian leadership, were later put into policy to breakdown Pakistan; undo partition both through political and belligerent (military) levels.

Distrust between the East and West wings of Pakistan

However, Indian machinations alone could not have achieved this dismemberment of Pakistan. West Pakistan itself is responsible for the fact that India got fertile ground for furthering its intrigues against Pakistan. The hegemonic attitude of West Pakistani politicians sowed the seeds of marginalization and alienation in the Bengali population of East Pakistan. The issues between the two parts started from the early days due to mishandling of the national language issue by the central government of Pakistan, which instituted Urdu as the national language, despite knowing that very few Bengalis spoke the language and that they constituted the majority ethnicity in the country. The question of official language was finally settled constitutionally as late as in 1956, but it already created huge discontent in East Pakistan.

Sheikh Mujib, back in 1950, threw a question to Prime Minister of Pakistan, Huseyn Shaheed Suharwardy, that “Was it not possible for East Pakistan to become independent someday?”

With time an increased sense of deprivation and exploitation was felt in East Pakistan and a general feeling that they were being systematically colonized by West Pakistani imperialism grew as did complaints about unequal growth and development between both the wings.

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India cleverly capitalized on the above-mentioned discontentment of East Pakistanis and chose Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, the Awami League Leader, as their tool to accomplish their desire to dissect Pakistan. It would be pertinent to mention that Mujib, even in 1950, according to Bengali intellectual Syed Badrul Islam, threw a question to Prime Minister of Pakistan, Huseyn Shaheed Suharwardy that “Was it not possible for East Pakistan to become independent someday?” at which Prime Minister admonished him.

Mujib’s desires fueled by the Indian Government

India, knowing fully well Mujib’s desire for achieving independence of East Pakistan, wholeheartedly endorsed Mujib’s approach. By 1963, India established successfully relations with Mujib and encouraged and supported him in his quest for separation of East Pakistan. Mujib continued meetings with Indian officials frequently and had regular meetings with Indira. One such meeting was held at Agartala (India), where the germ of the idea how to dismember of Pakistan was conceived in an organized manner.

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India’s nefarious role to break up Pakistan in 1971

 

[Tiger Genie]

nothing nefarious about it. It is well known and established that the west pakistani leaders did not want to serve under the east pakistani Mujib ur Rehman who had officially won the election. So they turned the military lose on the east pakistanis and massacred lakhs and lakhs of bengalis in east pakistan. With the result there was a flood of refugees that flowed into India. The bengalis Mukti Bahini then went after the marauding pakistani troops and started avenging the massacre of fellow bengalis. India exercised their moral and regional duty to put an end to the brutality as well as the flow of refugees and this aided the Mukti bahini to route the pakistanis. In fact Indian army saved the lives of tens of thousands of pakistani soldiers (there is video evidence of this) from the Multi Bahini. But for Pakistanis surrendering into Indian army's protection, they'd have all been murdered in revenge by mukti bahini.

So the world clearly knows that it is the racist greed of west pakistani leaders such as bhutto and the atrocity of massacres committed by pakistani military that broke pakistan.