Comments on: 1971: The Forgotten Silence

By: mehmood hussain

mehmood hussain — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:10:18 +0000

Alas, we lost one part of our country due to our own mistake,
you can not deny the facts and history, Muslim league was formed in Dhaka in 1906,if you go to the history of independance, in west bengal and east bengal all the majority of muslims were devoted muslims were in favoured for pakistan,sacrificed their lives, property everything for pakistan,
then why they go against pakistan, because our bareucrates,
army generals opposed the basic rights of our brethern muslims of east pakistan, haterd them, never give them the due rights they asked, even when they won the election with fair majority, bhutto, gen rao farman ali, gen raja khadim hussain,
gen niaizi, gen arbab jhanzeb they posed the wrong pictures
neglected the proposals of Admiral Ahsan, Gen retd Sahibzada Yaqoob Ali Khan, Air Commoodore Masood, they urged safe
transfer of powers to majority party, army action taken by Gen Tikka Khan worsed the situation, and our all times enemy
India, take the advantage by taking sorrows of effected, and librated east pakistan, their ever dream to dismember Pakistan,

May Allah bless Pakistan, we may unite one again with our
brethern east pakistani (ameen)
mehmood hussain,
karachi-pakistan

By: Ratib

Ratib — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:23:11 +0000

What disgusts me is the Pakistani mainstream explanation of the dissolution of Pakistan – “Bengalis, induced by some Indian Hindus, decided to ruin Pakistan”! What a farce!

In the United Pakistan, 23% were Hindus, and to call them Indian collaborators was just an indication of what Nazist hierarchical statehood the military junta ran.

Atrocities on Biharis? I have the balls to say yes, there were, and I remain contrite. However, they are, according to the Bangladesh Citizenship Order 1973 (as amended by the HC in 2008) citizens of Bangladesh, and none of Pakistan’s business.

Atrocities against Bengalis? They are foreigners in Pakistan’s books, and therefore an international issue.

By: Nusrat Pasha

Nusrat Pasha — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:07:58 +0000

Truths have to be reconciled with at any cost. We can not continue to live in a state of denial for ever. We won’t be able to. These are some truths:

1. To say that in 1971, we lost half the country is incorrect. There were more Pakistanis in East Pakistan than there were in the Western wing. The truth is that the majority was lost. The greater part of the nation of Pakistan simply chose to reidentify themselves. Why? What were they convinced they would not get – and ironically from the minority? It was “equality”.

2. Nations can not and do not survive without equality existing at every single plane.

3. There has to be perfect equality, of all kinds, at all levels, among all federating units.

4. There has to be perfect equality, of all kinds, at all levels, among all ethnic denominations.

5. There has to be perfect equality, of all kinds, at all levels, among all religious denominations.

6. There has to be perfect equality, of all kinds, at all levels, between urban and rural.

Equality and absolute equality on all these planes will have to be established. 1971 to 2010 makes 39 years of denial. There are no shortcuts to survival and there are no concessions for those who deem themselves “more equal”.