Sheikh mujeeb was nationalist to the point of bigotry which he used to gain votes in numerically superior east pakistan.
It was his right and the rights of the people of East Pakistan who had been denied economic, political and social rights.
Do you want me to put the annual development expenditures in both wings here for you to realize the disparity and the cruelty of the people of West Pakistan?
Had he been president of unitied Pakistan things would have turned into a disaster.
Historical Fiction is always idiotic.
Also geo graphically east pakistan has no point in union with west Pakistan. East PK was surrounded all by India and good ties with India were necessity for economic surviabliy.
And they demanded better defence in '65 as well and we left them insecure (that is what they interpreted)
It is amazing how the rest of Pakistan has come to peace with exisitence of BD in just two years and people have simply forgotten it and opened new chapter in PK-BD releations. Old people just have fond memories of east pakistan without any ill opnions.
No. People have come to peaxce because they are ashamed of their acts. Absolving the entire western wing of its crimes was necessary for the people to live with the guilt and the shame of treating the people who had done far more in the Pakistan Movement than their crown worhsipping fellows in the West.
Unlike Indians who have mentally not come to accecpt parition of "imaginary akhand bharat".
Here we go again. They represent a minority in India, as far as I see it. However, there remains a significant populace who are unwilling to settle peacefully.
The heart of Pakistan was always west-PK..the british just unnaturally joined east pakistan not wanting to open doors for further balkanization of India..
OMG this is awesome. Yes, the heart of Pakistan was West Pakistan where one province was ruled by Unionists and another by red-shirts, one of whom opposed Pakistan till the very end and the others joined Mulsim League as soon as Jinnah died (since he would not have allowed opportunist traitors to join the party).
The people of East Pakistan sacrificed far, far, far more for an independent country (at that time envisaged as two separate countries) than the ones in West Pakistan, which was home to recruiting grounds of the British Indian Army (since Bengalis were sidelined following the 1857 war) and it was the home of crown worshipping feudals and bureaucrats who'd be given titles like Khan Bahahdur and land grants for their services to the crown.
This was the best statement I've ever heard since it was easy for you to steal and falsify an entire historical account.
Absolving your elders of their follies, crimes and apathy is one thing and shamelessly targeting others is another thing.
This thread is about who started the wars. I'll not derail it anymore. I can provide you with reading material (and posts on PDF) so that you can get your head in order.