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Your statement is only half correct…
Actually more than half of Pakistani soldiers doing operations in east p at the time were Bengali!! as matter of fact they were the frontline troops fighting against mukti bhaini!!! In simplest terms they are referred to as razakars locals or Bengalis who sided with pak forces.
Yes I know many Bangladeshis especially anti pak ones; integra, lajadni ,eastwatch, zabanya,Sami like to exaggerate facts by implying that all troops in 71 were from outside Bangladesh.
However its true many Bengalis also fought against pak troops.
It is a rather interesting phenomenon that you Indians now seem to regret hyping up the hate and brainwashing resulting in breakup of east p. After all it was you who armed the mukti bhini and gave them external support by launching war on pak. At the time you were more than happy to help out your Bengali friends in need, I wonder why???????
1 thing many Pakistanis (I myself) and maybe Bangladeshis have learned is that no matter what India cannot be trusted!!!!!To me 71 incident was a civil war until the involvement of India and defeat of troops in east p.
Like I said before It was inevitable sooner or later it would have happened!!!! But I’m glad it happened because it opened up the senses to Bangladeshis to determine their own future and know their friends and foes.
That does not mean that the Pakistani state should not be cautious, in choosing its friends and allies. If Bangladesh wants friendship, cooperation then pak should extend its hand and work together as independent nations.. Hopefully there will be friendship in future between us two nations
But issuing visas, open borders (1 of al zaikr’s old statements) or a reunion with Bangladesh (some Pakistanis) I think is absolutely ludicrous to think otherwise.
Power hungry politicians from both sides preyed on the common man’s misconceptions and hijacked the agenda of unity and self-determination.
I mean isn’t it IRONIC that today in both pak ( PPP party) and Bangladesh (AL party) the very same people are in power who misled the people and disintegrated Pakistan in 1971 are looting, corrupting , plundering and destroying our nations.
Is this what the common man fought for???? To see the very same thieves, looters, bullies sit on the thrones and enjoy plundering the nations while thousands of poor people in both countries starve and look on?????
It’s a long way off 1971 but we still our tied to each other through religion, brother hood, culture and language. Ask any Bangladeshi or Pakistani and they will find more common ground between us then differences.
At the moment both our countries are stuck with different influences and until such governments come that meet, both the peoples grievances then there will always be differences among us.
I think you have not read the thread on Op Searchlight.
It shows that EPR alone took on the Pakistan Army and defeated it.
The EPR were not taken as Razakars, it was the Biharis and the fundamentalists who were the Razakaar
Just to refresh your memory as to who were the Razakars:
It was a paramilitary force that had the fundamentalists amongst Bengalis and the Urdu speaking i.e. Biharis who were mustered after the Pakistan Army crackdown and given a legal sheen through the East Pakistan Razakar Ordinance and a Ministry of Defence ordinance. They were taken to be a part of the Pakistan Army and they let loose mayhem and various atrocities.
Personally, I find there is nothing for India to regret about Bangladesh coming into being. One cannot expect a nation to be beholden in perpetuity. I have said it before. Bangladesh has its own vision, its own priorities and they need not coincide with India's. Nothing unusual actually. Very natural.
As a newly born nation, it is natural that they have very high expectation. This is more so accentuated by the fact, that they forget that they came into being only in 1971. However, in their mindset, they assume that they were created in 1947, when India was partitioned. That is why they want to constantly compare themselves with either India or Pakistan! Naturally, the gap of achieving independence being large, they are well behind, but not as far as their perception goes. Hence, you observe the frustration here on this sub forum, where everything that happens in Bangaldesh, they project it as if something of a marvel has happened in Bangladesh. Theirfrustration is compounded by the fact that the Bangladeshi political scene is chaotic and direction-less and totally is negative to meet the aspiration of the common Bangladeshi. And so, even the landing of a minor Saudi Sheik makes some of them ecstatic, as if the World Bank, IMF all rolled in one has landed; and every cent of the world will be doled out to Bnagladesh
gratis and soon Bangaldesh will be pushing the US and China into bankruptcy!! Or pasting a water tank and calling it a tank and expecting all to believe that it is a wonder of the world! These small things give them hope and to forget the stark and bleak reality.
I don't blame them for their euphoric delusions. All new nations grow through this phase. You can see the same with Chinese posters, eulogising their achievement after changing to capitalism, as if a new Great Wall Wonder is being created on a daily basis!
I presume same could be said of Indian posters too eulogising their achievements after liberalisation!
As far as Bangaldesh rejoining Pakistan, that is a moot point and too early in the day to even contemplate. The scars are too fresh on both sides. Pakistan is not even taking the Biharis back from Bangladesh as promised to the Biharis! Pakistan just cannot add to it bank of fundamentalists!
Why are you bringing in religion? It makes it very difficult for a non Muslim in a Pakistani forum to honestly discuss the same for obvious reasons.
If I may mention, the way you all thrust religion for everything is rather intriguing. You speak of common bonds uniting etc etc. You make religion the be all and end all of everything. Nothing wrong in that. It is laudable. But then, reality is something else. The TTP is massacring coreligionists, there is and was sectarian violence in Pakistan even before the TTP came into existence or even before 9/11, Balochistan is roughly being put in their place, Northern Area is out of bounds, NWFP is ablaze, there is the raging difference in interpreting the scriptures (each person, including the Mullahs assumes that he is the last word) including the thread on alcohol whether is it
haram or
hallal and so on. If indeed religion was so paramount and without differences in interpretation, then there would be no dissension and it would be a perfect society. And yet, it isn't!! Bangladesh would not have come into being and neither would the chaos that Pakistan is in! And yet, you talk of religion being the common bond and the common denominator. Facts on the ground does not appear to substantiate the claim. I think it is time for all to understand the temporal issues being a class by itself and separate it from the spiritual. If one has to progress, one cannot base it on fond delusions.
As I see it, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have their own destiny and their own aspirations and let each find its own path!
Can we not trade NE for Eastern Sundarbans as your new backyard?
