Rare video: Bangladeshi freedom fighters are taking oath in 1971

[Armstrong]

I bet his arse lit up too. Or maybe that was due to Biryani and the guy sitting behind him lighting a cigarette!

Khan Sahib mein insaaan hunnn....Pathan nahin hoooon !

 

[Hyperion]

Why he felt insulted? I expect for you to do better next time!!!! The thing is, whenever you insult a Butt, offer food with it, then he feels better and the insult gets watered down. BUTTOLOGY101!

Butt saab apko kun insult feel hue?-

 

[Hyperion]

Beta, aggar Khan poora ka poora Butt bhee kha jaye, ussko bhee hazzam karr ley, hajmola key baghair!

Khan Sahib mein insaaan hunnn....Pathan nahin hoooon !

 

[haviZsultan]

Khan Sahib mein insaaan hunnn....Pathan nahin hoooon !

Spamming again?

 

[A.Rafay]

Nahi meri jan. Truth hurts sometimes. I don't want us to ever repeat 71, we should learn from our past mistakes. That's all that I want from this debate.

We Pakistanis never learn from our past mistakes. The thing is Pakistanis don't want to learn.

 

[extra terrestrial]

(1) For whatever reason the British stopped recruitment from East-Pakistan; what was the end result ? Much....much...much less Bengalis in the newly created Pakistan Army when compared with the Punjabis and the Pukhoons.
It takes time to overcome this differences and that too in a developing country where rarely anything goes according to plan.

There's nothing against the armed forces recruitment, I even commend Ayub Khan who actually trusted the Bengalis and after their role during '65 Indo-Pak war, he began mass recruitment of Bengalis in the armed forces.

(2) Not likely because the urban population of West-Pakistan was 33% of the total population in '47 while it stood at about 1/6th that at 5% for East-Pakistan (Seth, K., Economic prospects of Bangla Desh (Trimurti Publications, NewDelhi, 1972).

The figure is a bit dubious to me, 33% is a bit too high considering Pakistan's current urban population is about 36%. Anyway, I was emphasizing on the educated population who could held the civil positions.

And that my friend is the reason why that that the initial 5 year and 10 year plan benefited West-Pakistan more than East-Pakistan because those plans were 'industrialization' oriented and if you've got 95% of your population living in the rural areas, as was the case with East-Pakistan, what are you going to industrialize ?

Bhai, consider the East Pakistani view,

* There were enough raw jute grew in East Pakistan, raw leather were in abundance, but we didn't have any factories/mills to produce, as a result they were being smuggled into India in large numbers.

* Daily commodities were brought from West Pakistan which were produced from the raw materials of East Pakistan. Due to the transportation and other costs, East Pakistanis had to pay double price for every product.

 

[extra terrestrial]

@Hyperion @DESERT FIGHTER @JonAsad @extra terrestrial - Recommend a good movie !

Rush, watched it today, I'm a bit outdated when it comes to movies though!

 

[A.Rafay]

Interstellar!

@Oscar @Horus: Did you guys watch it?????

Will watch it tonight, looked interesting from trailer.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Beta, aggar Khan poora ka poora Butt bhee kha jaye, ussko bhee hazzam karr ley, hajmola key baghair!

Haan Pathans love charbi aka fat with their meat..

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Butt saab apko kun insult feel hue?-

Butt is insult proof.. Just like my G shock is shock proof..

 

[Green Arrow]

A dark chapter in our history

 

[ssethii]

Sorry, but I have to say this...
Bloody fish and rice eating dwarfs.

 

[Armstrong]

The figure is a bit dubious to me, 33% is a bit too high considering Pakistan's current urban population is about 36%. Anyway, I was emphasizing on the educated population who could held the civil positions.

The source document that I took this from painted an equally dismal picture of education because whereas the literacy rate in East-Pakistan was more than that of West-Pakistan; the number of those having a matriculation, intermediate and higher was much lesser in the East when compared with the West as was the completion of education beyond the Primary Level.

I'm too lazy to search for that document again !

Bhai, consider the East Pakistani view,

* There were enough raw jute grew in East Pakistan, raw leather were in abundance, but we didn't have any factories/mills to produce, as a result they were being smuggled into India in large numbers.

* Daily commodities were brought from West Pakistan which were produced from the raw materials of East Pakistan. Due to the transportation and other costs, East Pakistanis had to pay double price for every product.

I hear you...I understand but also consider it from our point-of-view; Calcutta was the main thing whereas East-Bengal was mostly a hinterland to Calcutta so when Calcutta went to India so did all of the Jute Factories. There wasn't a single Jute Factory in East-Pakistan at the time of the Partition wheres up till Yahya's time they had increased to 77 (Again I'm too lazy to re-search for the reference again....it was as per an Article in DailyTimes )

 

[Hyperion]

Thank you for your unwarranted insult. Now think what if I said that about (average) Punjabis (Biryani eating, dark dwarfs)!

Sorry, but I have to say this...
Bloody fish and rice eating dwarfs.

 

[livingdead]

late to the party..
@BDforever @Loki what is your response to the accusation that muktis were terrorists.