The Fall Of Dhaka: Lessons For Pakistan | PKKH.tv
PKKH Exclusive | by Talha Ibrahim
The charges against us read out on the first day of hearing in the case (Agartala) were absolutely right.
We formed a Sangram Parishad led by Bangabandhu to free East Pakistan through armed protest,
said Shawkat Ali, the Speaker of Bangladesh parliament in a court hearing.
Shawkat Ali is one of the accused that was implicated in Agartala Conspiracy Case, a sedition case brought forward by the Government of Pakistan in early 1968 against Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the leader of the Awami League and 34 other persons.
As a reporter of the events that happened, I believe in the proclamation of truth. In 2011, I had a chance encounter with a renowned former student leader of Dhakka University and it bloomed into a friendship based on mutual respect. Naive to the socio-political realities of what purported to the great tragedy of 1971, I learnt alot from that person. I can still remember his words, If Mujib would have wanted, Pakistan would never have been broken.
Since the past 40 years, Pakistan has been solely held responsible for the secession of East Pakistan. Notwithstanding that to some extent certain political bigwigs of Pakistan succumbed to dispel doubts inculcated in Bengalis minds, the focus of this essay would revolve around Indias illegitimate role in the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.
Experts suggest that the first instances of State Sponsored terrorism reported in Asia, to destabilize other nations harmony originated from India. The intimate involvement of RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) in dirty deeds includes drugs trafficking, human trafficking, arms trafficking, coup détat in foreign nations, subversive activities, assassinations, nuclear proliferation, and downright recruiting, funding and training of terrorists in different countries. The documented evidence of Indias illegal measures were presented by Rabinder Nath, a double agent of CIA when he ultimately defected from RAW. This continued fetishism of India with terrorism, hidden beneath the banner of political talks has fostered dangerous notions in the terrorist elements of Asian region. Candid revelations of the intelligence community worldwide acknowledge that proxies like Baloch Liberation Army, Sindhu Desh Liberation Army, Tehreek e Taliban et cetera are funded and trained by Indian army. A killer Ajmal Pahari belonging to the terrorist wing of a political party MQM, caught by the police confessed about being trained by Delhi. Not only of her arch rival Pakistan, integrity of countries like Burma, Sri Lanka and Nepal have also been violated systematically by India to no avail.
But they got successful once.
The day when Bangladesh came into existence.
How Bangladesh came about?
The answer to this lies in the adoption of Chanakya Doctrine by India. Considered as a Hindu Machiavelli, Kautilya alias Chanakya, a Chandraguptas minister who developed a strategy of destabilizing and weakening neighboring states around 320 B.C. The continued successes of Chandragupta and Asoka, is considered as a result of this doctrine. After the humiliating Indian defeat in 1965 Pakistan-India war, this theory was put to test by Indian forces and the factories to create traitors were set in Bangladesh.
India has a long history of activities in Bangladesh since 1960s, and it reached its zenith at the time of Bangladesh creation. It most significant development was the creation of Mukti Bahini, a secessionist force made up of nationalists to counter the writ of Pakistan through armed struggle. Intelligence documents revealed that India had engaged these people from as back as 1967. The Six Points of Mujib that demanded certain autonomy for Eastern Pakistan came afterwards. Pragmatism demands us to raise our eyebrows on thoughts like Why was India involved in Bangladesh at the time when there was relative calm in the society? Were they planning to aggravate the situation further?
In the meanwhile, the Eastern Command of Inter Services Intelligence uncovered a plot. It was discovered that a navy steward Mujibur Rahman and the educationist Mohammad Ali Reza went to Agartala, a city in India to seek Indian support for an independent Bangladesh. On January 18, Sheikh Mujib was named as one of the accused. He and others were arrested on 9 May1968. The trial began on 19 June 1968 in Dhaka Cantonment under a special tribunal. The charge sheets of 100 paragraphs were presented before the tribunal, with 227 witnesses and 7 approvers. The accused maintained the stance of false implication. Being labelled as a traitor and separatist by Pakistan, Mujibs followers instigated the masses and a massive upsurge of people thronged the streets. They organized mass movement and demanded immediate withdrawal of the case and release of all prisoners. The final date for the case decision was 6 February 1969, but it was deferred and Mujib ur Rehman was eventually released; to be commemorated by the Bengalis as hero.
The ranks of Mukti Bahini in the meanwhile multiplied. The already disenchanted leftists wary of Islamic Republic of Palistan, were made to join on the promises of a separate ethno centric land based on secular values. The creation and training of this proxy force was code-named Operation Jackpot. Training was provided to them in the Jungle Warfare and Counter Insurgency school at Vairengte, India. Later Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw revealed in his book Soldiering with Dignity that 80000 Hindus were also inducted in the ranks of Mukti Bahini.
This war was brought upon the Bengalis by India. Creation of Mukti Bahini and Agartala Conspiracy are a stark reminder of how Indian militiary and civilian leadership functions.
On 26 March 1971, the State of Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight in Eastern Pakistan against Mukti Bahini. This is widely considered that Bengalis were murdered by Pakistani forces, irrespective of the fact that the Bengalis killed were miscreants of Mukti Bahini. When the miscreants of Mukti Bahini were pillaging the houses, raping the women and killing men of Behari nationality; nothing more could have been expected from the army that is taught to value civilian lives. Later on to cover the rapes committed by Mukti Bahini, the government of Bangladesh accused Pakistan army. Later it was proved wrong when Sarmila Bose, a senior researcher in her book Dead Reckoning stated,
During my field research on several incidents in East Pakistan during 1971, Bangladeshi participants and eyewitnesses described battles, raids, massacres and executions, but told me that women were not harmed by the army in these events except by chance such as in crossfire. The pattern that emerged from these incidents was that the Pakistan army targeted adult males while sparing women and children.
As finally signs of progress started emerging and the chances of Mukti Bahini defeat got brighter, India violated the sovereign integrity of Eastern Pakistan by declaring support for the miscreants, and engaged in direct warfare with Pakistan army from both the East-West front. The proposal of ceasefire was also forwarded in the United Nations by Pakistan to which India didnt respond. Clearly this operation was purely designed to disintegrate Pakistan, as Indias no response, as well as USSR veto tells a different story.
The story is that India didnt want East Pakistan to remain as Pakistan.
Talha Ibrahim is an amateur writer currently pursuing Chartered Accountancy, Talha wants to be a wise man someday. Not having any particular affinity towards right wing or left wing politics, he forms his conclusions derived from his own idiosyncratic goggles.
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PKKH Exclusive | by Talha Ibrahim
The charges against us read out on the first day of hearing in the case (Agartala) were absolutely right.
We formed a Sangram Parishad led by Bangabandhu to free East Pakistan through armed protest,
said Shawkat Ali, the Speaker of Bangladesh parliament in a court hearing.
Shawkat Ali is one of the accused that was implicated in Agartala Conspiracy Case, a sedition case brought forward by the Government of Pakistan in early 1968 against Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the leader of the Awami League and 34 other persons.
As a reporter of the events that happened, I believe in the proclamation of truth. In 2011, I had a chance encounter with a renowned former student leader of Dhakka University and it bloomed into a friendship based on mutual respect. Naive to the socio-political realities of what purported to the great tragedy of 1971, I learnt alot from that person. I can still remember his words, If Mujib would have wanted, Pakistan would never have been broken.
Since the past 40 years, Pakistan has been solely held responsible for the secession of East Pakistan. Notwithstanding that to some extent certain political bigwigs of Pakistan succumbed to dispel doubts inculcated in Bengalis minds, the focus of this essay would revolve around Indias illegitimate role in the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.
Experts suggest that the first instances of State Sponsored terrorism reported in Asia, to destabilize other nations harmony originated from India. The intimate involvement of RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) in dirty deeds includes drugs trafficking, human trafficking, arms trafficking, coup détat in foreign nations, subversive activities, assassinations, nuclear proliferation, and downright recruiting, funding and training of terrorists in different countries. The documented evidence of Indias illegal measures were presented by Rabinder Nath, a double agent of CIA when he ultimately defected from RAW. This continued fetishism of India with terrorism, hidden beneath the banner of political talks has fostered dangerous notions in the terrorist elements of Asian region. Candid revelations of the intelligence community worldwide acknowledge that proxies like Baloch Liberation Army, Sindhu Desh Liberation Army, Tehreek e Taliban et cetera are funded and trained by Indian army. A killer Ajmal Pahari belonging to the terrorist wing of a political party MQM, caught by the police confessed about being trained by Delhi. Not only of her arch rival Pakistan, integrity of countries like Burma, Sri Lanka and Nepal have also been violated systematically by India to no avail.
But they got successful once.
The day when Bangladesh came into existence.
How Bangladesh came about?
The answer to this lies in the adoption of Chanakya Doctrine by India. Considered as a Hindu Machiavelli, Kautilya alias Chanakya, a Chandraguptas minister who developed a strategy of destabilizing and weakening neighboring states around 320 B.C. The continued successes of Chandragupta and Asoka, is considered as a result of this doctrine. After the humiliating Indian defeat in 1965 Pakistan-India war, this theory was put to test by Indian forces and the factories to create traitors were set in Bangladesh.
India has a long history of activities in Bangladesh since 1960s, and it reached its zenith at the time of Bangladesh creation. It most significant development was the creation of Mukti Bahini, a secessionist force made up of nationalists to counter the writ of Pakistan through armed struggle. Intelligence documents revealed that India had engaged these people from as back as 1967. The Six Points of Mujib that demanded certain autonomy for Eastern Pakistan came afterwards. Pragmatism demands us to raise our eyebrows on thoughts like Why was India involved in Bangladesh at the time when there was relative calm in the society? Were they planning to aggravate the situation further?
In the meanwhile, the Eastern Command of Inter Services Intelligence uncovered a plot. It was discovered that a navy steward Mujibur Rahman and the educationist Mohammad Ali Reza went to Agartala, a city in India to seek Indian support for an independent Bangladesh. On January 18, Sheikh Mujib was named as one of the accused. He and others were arrested on 9 May1968. The trial began on 19 June 1968 in Dhaka Cantonment under a special tribunal. The charge sheets of 100 paragraphs were presented before the tribunal, with 227 witnesses and 7 approvers. The accused maintained the stance of false implication. Being labelled as a traitor and separatist by Pakistan, Mujibs followers instigated the masses and a massive upsurge of people thronged the streets. They organized mass movement and demanded immediate withdrawal of the case and release of all prisoners. The final date for the case decision was 6 February 1969, but it was deferred and Mujib ur Rehman was eventually released; to be commemorated by the Bengalis as hero.
The ranks of Mukti Bahini in the meanwhile multiplied. The already disenchanted leftists wary of Islamic Republic of Palistan, were made to join on the promises of a separate ethno centric land based on secular values. The creation and training of this proxy force was code-named Operation Jackpot. Training was provided to them in the Jungle Warfare and Counter Insurgency school at Vairengte, India. Later Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw revealed in his book Soldiering with Dignity that 80000 Hindus were also inducted in the ranks of Mukti Bahini.
This war was brought upon the Bengalis by India. Creation of Mukti Bahini and Agartala Conspiracy are a stark reminder of how Indian militiary and civilian leadership functions.
On 26 March 1971, the State of Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight in Eastern Pakistan against Mukti Bahini. This is widely considered that Bengalis were murdered by Pakistani forces, irrespective of the fact that the Bengalis killed were miscreants of Mukti Bahini. When the miscreants of Mukti Bahini were pillaging the houses, raping the women and killing men of Behari nationality; nothing more could have been expected from the army that is taught to value civilian lives. Later on to cover the rapes committed by Mukti Bahini, the government of Bangladesh accused Pakistan army. Later it was proved wrong when Sarmila Bose, a senior researcher in her book Dead Reckoning stated,
During my field research on several incidents in East Pakistan during 1971, Bangladeshi participants and eyewitnesses described battles, raids, massacres and executions, but told me that women were not harmed by the army in these events except by chance such as in crossfire. The pattern that emerged from these incidents was that the Pakistan army targeted adult males while sparing women and children.
As finally signs of progress started emerging and the chances of Mukti Bahini defeat got brighter, India violated the sovereign integrity of Eastern Pakistan by declaring support for the miscreants, and engaged in direct warfare with Pakistan army from both the East-West front. The proposal of ceasefire was also forwarded in the United Nations by Pakistan to which India didnt respond. Clearly this operation was purely designed to disintegrate Pakistan, as Indias no response, as well as USSR veto tells a different story.
The story is that India didnt want East Pakistan to remain as Pakistan.
Talha Ibrahim is an amateur writer currently pursuing Chartered Accountancy, Talha wants to be a wise man someday. Not having any particular affinity towards right wing or left wing politics, he forms his conclusions derived from his own idiosyncratic goggles.
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