Salim,
If majority of East Pakistanis or Beharis were against Pakistan than care to explain why India had to invade to capture East Pakistan. After all there were about 90,000-95,000 Pakistani soldiers against millions of East Pakistanis. No matter how strong a military is it can not overcome such odds. Latest examples are American and Nato led forces in Afghanistan. They have not been able to control Afghanistan despite having best technologies.
Please stop floating stories that do not have logical meaning. If majority of East Pakistanis would have been against West Pakistan than Mujib would not have been cold bloodedly killed by the Bangladesh army and if he was killed there would have been very very serious rioting on the streets. Nothing like that happened. After all he was the father of the new nation. Military does not act unless it has reasonable reasons to believe that people would not react to what they are going to do.
There was more to it than just East West Pakistan relations. One cannot ignore the broader conspiracy involved in the separation of East Pakistan.
Yahya is definitely to be blamed since he was the head of state at that moment and defending the country against all odds was his prime responsibility. I am not so sure about Bhutto’s involvement and therefore cannot comment on that.
The fact that such a large area could be resoundedly defeated in just two weeks of battle should be adequate to know if the Bengalees were not with Indians or not!
Historically, it is better than the blitzkereig of the Germans, which is so fondly totuted in military history as a great achievement. If you wish to admit that the Indians are better than German or that the Pakistani Army was the most useless and unprofessional a force, I cannot dispel your view.
It is a total humbug that only 45.000 Pakistani military personnel were there in East Paksitan. If indeed, for argument;s sake agree, it shows the total deficit in the Pakistani Generalship and the political leadership that they had no clue how to defend a country, having totally gone awry in the Threat Analysis!
I have engaged the Pakistani Army many a time, and I would not like to agree with your contention that your Army is unprofessional, your Generalship incompetent and your political leadership totally at sea and vision-less!
Mujib was killed by Bangaldshi Army offiicers of the Paksitan Army. They were well conversant how to seize power, having lived a life where the Army called the shots, Democracy was not appealing to them out of force of habit. Nothing unusua.
You will notice the number of military govts you have had and Bangladesh is following even though they hardly have a history as a nation!
I am sure you will realise that your post is totally out of depth and forces others to defend the Pakistani Army.
May I also request that for every errror of history or present, don't go finding scapegoats and excuses.
Look within.
There must surely be some problems or else why is it that repeatedly Pakistan alone is unable to solve the issues that confront them?
I don't blame Yahyah.
He only inherited the legacy wherein Bengalees were not taken as equals and they were left to their own means and when they won the election, it shook all out of their wits resulting in chicanery that made Bengalees wild and they decided to go their own way.
Indeed, if Bengaless, were not keen on being on their own, because of the injsutice and unfairness meted out to them by the 'superiror' west Pakistanis, they should be clamouring to rejoin Pakistan. A feature one does not see at all!
I presume the case is of being once bitten, twice shy, inspite of having the same religion and the same cause for breaking away from India!
Another point about Mujib, is that he thought Bangladesh was his father's property and that was not what the Bengalees thought was right and hence there was no riots. Further, how many riots are there in Pakistan when the Army comes out?
Before letting your emotions take a grip over you, please think as to what replies you will receive.
In the otherwise pleasant environment here on this forum, your quirky and unsubtatiated post forced me to pen this post!
