If im not mistaking then the 1971 agreement between Pakistan-Bangladesh clearly states that Pakistan will recognize Bangladesh and vice-versa and in return no one should bring up old wounds
Kaiser,
Isn't it amazing that this thread was intended to basically discuss the Bangladesh ORBAT ( Order of Battle) against Pakistan but has ended up in a " you said..I said scenario ".
The eastern territory of Pakistan was only connected with us politically for 24 years and Bangladesh has been in existence for more double that time. Yet some how our guests want to relive the past Civil War, and justify their case, which is of least interest to us.
We fought a Civil War, and lost. Unlike other Civil wars ( example the US Civil War ),
this Civil War was unique; because it did not deliver to the victor an entire nation as Civil Wars usually do. The largest, most strategic, and most beautiful territory with a low population density, oddly enough, remained with the losing party. We also retained the core of the armed forces assets.
What is more the territory we lost is in danger of being submerged by rising waters due to climate change.
We rebuilt our armed forces to be superior to the Civil War faction that defeated us, and today are powerful enough to impose a crippling cost on the alliance that once defeated us, should they instigate a full fledged war.
Militarily we are far more powerful than anyone could have foreseen immediately after our defeat.
This is obviously a very unpalatable situation for the victors of the Civil War and the victory rings hollow. ,
Bangladesh did not ratify the Delhi accords of 1973 and 1974 which India and Pakistan both did. For Pakistan and India the conflict in the east was over . Bangladesh was the outlier. So whose fault is it?
There is a saying in Bengali:
"
Shob Dosh Nandu Ghosh "
With my very limited knowledge of Bengali It is hard to give you an
exact translation, because the literal "word for word" translation will be meaningless, but it roughly means "Don't blame us " or "It is all someone else's fault ". The attitude is pretty typical. So in the eyes of our guests here, it is all our fault.
On this forum while sharing pictures of Islamabad I got a comment from a guest from Bangladesh, that Islamabad's beauty is because all the money from his nation had been wrung out, and invested there. Who was to tell this person that Islamabad was only established in a basic form in 1967, just four years before our Civil War, and all major monuments such as the Faisal Mosque, Parliament Building , were completed only by the mid 1980s. If Dhaka is different from Islamabad it shouldn't be Pakistan's fault. But then ...
Shob Dosh Nandu Ghosh.
At this point I may shock you by discussing our other enemy which is India.
Indians only hate us for our religion, and not for our language, culture and heritage.
Indians are very honest about their stand. They don't justify anything to us. Their stance is simple:
"We are your enemy and we will destroy you "
India is not piggybacking on anyone, and what is more their threats are mostly genuine. You can't blame them for not trying to strike us. They try despite the consequences.
Though even here the difference is, that they want to destroy Pakistan as a nation, not necessarily butcher all the citizens or destroy the land.
In its earlier secular avatar India did not massacre Pakistani citizens when they annexed territories such as Turtok in 1971; and but for India there would have been a horrible genocide of stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh.
The Civil War saw a huge number of civilian deaths on both sides ( Bangladesh and Pakistan). There have been no instances of the Indian army killing Pakistani civilians in Bangladesh. Nor did the Indian Army kill POWs.
Under the present regime the Indian Army shells the LoC kills civilians, and suffers the consequences, but there has been no case of Indian army units massacring civilians directly by infantry actions ( bayonets and rifle fire) in captured Pakistani villages. Even when Dograi briefly fell to the Indian Army in the Lahore sector in 1965 there were no instances of bayonet killings, rape and slaughter of children. With the Hindutva mindset taking hold of the population, it is not known how long this tradition of old Rajput Jat chivalry will last, but it seems to hold even now, at least on the international border if not elsewhere, Random killings and rapes by individual paramilitary units aside, mass genocide in Kashmir has so far not happened ( despite our fears), else refugees would have been clogging the borders of Pakistan.
The difference with the situation as it prevailed in the Civil War in 1971 are obvious.
We have two different types of enemies to defend against. One has tremendous hardware and numerical capabilities with a desire to conquer and change us , and the other has a tremendous dislike for us for who we are.
At this time I would request my countrymen to look at the facts and not make another horrible blunder we made back in 1947 on the basis of "brotherhood" .
"na samjhoge to miT jāoge ai pakistan vaalo
tumhārī dāstāñ tak bhī na hogī dāstānoñ me"
Trans: "If you don't understand oh my countrymen, then you will be erased. Even ( the mention of ) your legend, will be gone from amongst the ( book of ) legends"
