By Kashif Ahmed
The following presentation / documentary is the truth behind the fall of Dhaka, East Pakistan, 1971: Using archive footage; we piece together the conspiracy to uncover rarely reported facts about this traumatic, controversial conflict and its aftermath.
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After watching the presentation, you could also read our report: A War on Two Fronts: Setting the Record Straight on East Pakistan for more information.
By Kashif Ahmed
Before we begin, it’d be remiss of me not to state the fact that the majority of learned Pakistanis and Bengalis still regard each other as brothers and sisters. And that all serious people know that the conflict in East Pakistan; was instigated by corrupt politicians in Delhi, Islamabad, Washington, Dhaka and Tel Aviv. For just as most Iraqis and Iranians are well aware of the fact that they were manipulated into a war by their mutual enemies, so too are most Bengalis and Pakistanis.
That said, there is still a lot of disinformation about the war out there; primarily circulated by Indians, and primarily targeted at Bengalis. So the need to redress the balance and present what actually happened is imperative in the interests of moving forward, and separating fact from fiction.
1940: As the Rothschild controlled, Judeo-British Empire collapsed; they began moving their Indian subordinates into positions of political power: This collaborator class (also known as the ‘Hindu Raj’) had been trained by the invader to take over when they left.
Shabbos Goys in England, would use the Hindu Raj as their stooge / proxy government, to police Muslim ambitions in the subcontinent. And keep India under Judeo-British suzerainty, albeit by remote control.
The empire had always feared the return of Muslim rule: For Muslims had led the resistance in every battle, Muslims had instigated the First War of Independence (1857) and if anyone could remove the Judeo-British occupation from India, it was the Muslims (obviously there were many honourable Hindus and Sikhs who also participated in the freedom struggle–but given that the Mughal Empire was an Islamic empire, naturally; it was the Muslims whom Jewry and the British wanted to isolate).
Reading transcripts from the show trial of the last Mughal, Badhur Shah Zafar, one gets an insight into just how paranoid the Redcoats were. And a glimpse into their plans to groom / promote collaborationist elements within the Hindu population:
The Show-Trial of Shah Badhur Zafar, 27th January–9th March, 1858:
“…We have been able to elicit during our extended enquiries, we shall see exactly how exclusively Mohammedans are in all prominent points attached to the case. A Mohammedan priest. A Mohammedan king. A Mohammedan clandestine embassy to Mohammedan powers in Persia and Turkey. Mohammedan prophesies as to the downfall of our power. Mohammedan rule as a successor to our own. The most cold-blooded murders by Mohammedan assassins. A religious war for Mohammedan ascendancy. A Mohammedan press unscrupulously abetting. And Mohammedan sepoys (soldiers) initiating the mutiny. Hinduism, I may say, is nowhere either there reflected or represented.”
Major F.J. Harriott, The British Empire’s Judge-Advocate General for the prosecution“Mutiny?…Now that’s an interesting word: How can a king mutiny against his own subjects? I am the King. I have never been a subject of the East India Company (British Empire): The Company is the guilty party.”
Mughal Shah Bahadur Zafar,Poet Emperor of the last of the Moghuls: Bahadur Shah Zafar,
By Farzana Moon
1945: Indian Muslims correctly identified the looming threat of the Hindu Raj and supported the Herculean effort to create Pakistan: A land where they could protect themselves from former compatriots who’d come under foreign (i.e. Judeo-British) influence.
1947: India was partitioned along religious lines in a torrent of bloodshed and bitterness between Hindu extremists, the Muslims who defied them, Sikh nationalists who’d been duped to fight for India and the Judeo-British invaders who’d started the troubles to begin with.
1947: Pakistan is created. Pakistan is the first state since The Holy City of Medina, founded on Islamic principles. Pakistan is also the first country in living memory; whose Eastern and Western borders are separated by a hostile nation (i.e. India).
Indo-Pak war 1947: India attempts to invade West Pakistan. Pakistan liberates part of Kashmir, Indian occupation entrenches on the other side. Indian military defeat.
1959: Pakistani President, General Ayub Khan, begins the ‘Decade of Progress’ and the Five-Year Plan initiative: A brilliant, and largely successful, strategy to modernise all Pakistani institutions.
After Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan, General Ayub Khan, was the best Pakistani leader to date.
“In the early 1960s, Pakistan was seen around the world as a model of economic development. Many countries sought to emulate Pakistan’s economic planning strategy, and South Korea copied its second Five Year Plan (1960-65). In the early 1960s the per capita income of South Korea was less than double that of Pakistan (Maddison 2001). But the former economy became by far the more developed, GNI per capita in 2006 of US$17690 (World Bank 2007).”
Human capital and economic growth: Pakistan, 1960-2003
Abbasa, Qaisar, Foreman-Peck, JamesCardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2007/22
Its worth mentioning; that every civilian democratic government so far after Ayub Khan, has run public institutions into the ground: These useless, thieving, treasonous, ‘democratic’ plutocrats (e.g Nawaz Sharif, Zulfikar Bhutto, Asif Zardari, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, Altaf Hussain, Asfandyar Wali, Mahmood Achakzai etc) blame everyone (mostly the military) but themselves for the state of the economy.
And only in recent times; has the extent of their corruption & criminal negligence been exposed by political reformers like Imran Khan and Zaid Hamid, by international investigations like The Panama Papers and by fearless Pakistani journalists like Arshad Sharif, Dr. Shahid Masood and others.
Needless to say, the traumatic events of 1971, unfolded after General Ayub Khan had resigned (following protests from ‘pro-democracy’ shills) and reluctant stand-in, General Yahya Khan, was under pressure to do likewise from the same rabble of ‘progressive liberals’ and ‘democracy’ lovers.
General Yahya Khan, an affable and guileless chap, faced a war on two fronts: The Indian enemy infiltration out in the East was a visible threat, but it was the enemy within (his own Prime Minister–Zulfikar Bhutto) that would be his undoing.
Zulfikar Bhutto and Mujibur Rahman (opponents in public, co-conspirators behind the scenes) plotted against their own country; these ruthless crooks sought to undermine the military, discredit Yahya Khan and planned to usurp power for themselves. Mr. Bhutto even said it out loud: ‘You (Rahman) will rule in the East, and I will rule in the West’.
Sino-Indian war 1962: India attempts to occupy positions on the Indo-China border, and inside Chinese territory. Indian military defeat.
Indo-Pak war 1965: India attempts to invade West Pakistan. India goes from offensive to defensive positions within 17 days. Indian military defeat.
1965: Despite having the second biggest military in the world, India is unable to annex Pakistan: Their quick collapse in this war, coupled with their humiliating defeat against China three years earlier, sends shock-waves throughout Delhi.
The Indian RAW realized that they would have to resort to skulduggery / subversion to get one over on West Pakistan (the prize that India most coveted). They looked East, and searched for collaborators: Unfortunately, India soon found a willing stooge in leftist poser, Mujibur Rahman. And work began in earnest to spread anti-Pakistani propaganda throughout East Pakistan.
The Indian psy-ops campaign was crude and mostly ineffective, but through a combination of bribery, threats and coercion; India managed to get a foothold in East Pakistan via their proxy terrorist group; the Mukti Bahini (People’s Army): Supported by the illegitimate state of Israel and the Soviet Union, the Mukti Bahini slowly spread throughout the country like mould on a wet wall.
Mujibur Rahman initially led a party known as the Muslim Awami League (Muslim People’s League), but soon dropped the ‘Muslim’ and simply became the Awami League: The political face of Israeli-Indian-Soviet sponsored terror in East Pakistan. The structure and creation of the Mukthi Bahini militia itself, was explained 13 years later by KGB defector, Yuri Benzmenov:
West Pakistani politicians and the self-absorbed, West-Pakistani intelligentsia; seemed oblivious as to what was going on in the East: With some so-called liberals and intellectuals fixated on petty squabbles, that had nothing to do with the clear and present danger of the enemy infiltration of a sovereign state.
Clueless commentators waxed lyrical about perceived injustices, the need to respect cultural sensibilities and recognise the Awami League’s ‘democratic mandate’ in Dhaka. All the while ignoring the fact that Indian troops were being captured on a daily basis by overstretched Pakistani forces. Never once mentioning that Indian invaders were entering the country, that the posted contingent of rifles and ground troops weren’t going to be enough to fend off a full-scale invasion on the Eastern front. And that deploying reserves after that kind of invasion happened, wouldn’t really help matters at all.
One of the flaws of the military campaign against the Indian-Mukthi Bahini occupation, was the classic error that almost led to the Syrian Arab Army’s downfall in 2012: Pakistanis were fighting a counterinsurgency (fourth generation war) like a second generation war: Rather than employing small-scale, intelligence-led operations to dismantle Mukti Bahini terror-cells and expose their handlers in the media, a small contingent of Pakistani troops were going around the country eliminating terrorist activities wherever they were reported. Instead of widening their scope of operations to hit the puppeteers (i.e. India), Pakistani forces were knocking out their proxies in an ad-hoc manner.
Pakistani troops waged a heroic, desperate campaign with next to no political support; but by the end of it, they were more like firefighters going from call to call. The fact that all this was happening many miles away from the West, also made it seem like some kind of far-flung adventure in the middle-of-nowhere, as opposed to the deadly serious situation it actually was.
Due to the absence of anything vaguely resembling a coherent media-strategy; Many successful battles against the enemy, were misreported in the media as ‘human rights violations’: The lurid, wartime apocryphal of ‘rape and genocide’ is still trotted out by corrupt Bangladeshi politicians (e.g. PM Hasina Wazed): Emotive and entirely made-up stories, show-trials and retrospective recriminations are routinely employed to fool gullible Bengalis into believing that all their problems over the last 46 years, are because of West Pakistan.
Relations remain tense, despite PM Hasina Wazed’s subservience to the Israeli-Indian agenda. Indian Security Forces have killed over a 1,000 Bengalis on and near the Indo-Bangladeshi border, between 2001 and 2011.
Many Bangladeshis oppose PM Hasina’s tyrannical policies, and in February 2013; Dhaka saw one of the largest anti-government demonstrations in history: Mrs Wazed’s security forces, eager to please their benefactors in Tel Aviv & Delhi, attacked civilians on sight; leading to a 150 dead and over 2,000 injured. The demonstrations petered out, but tensions remain; ever bubbling under the surface.
In August 2019, after the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A by the Indian occupation in Kashmir: Bengalis took to the streets to protest; in the biggest anti-Indian / anti-regime demonstration in over six years.
Pakistan won the war because India failed to invade West Pakistan, and was counter invaded almost in parallel with the fall of Dhaka. On the other hand, India partially achieved its secondary objective; which was to convert East Pakistan into a qusai-secular client state, and divide the Muslim population along ethnic-lines.
The main problem with the manner in which they did it, is that they had to use bribery and underhanded methods. Some may even argue that the only way India could win part of a war against Pakistan, was by hiring other Pakistanis to fight it for them.
India hasn’t managed to make any long-term political gains from the war and, in the final analysis, went to a lot of trouble just to acquire the services of one political party (i.e. the Awami League): India still has a lot of problems every time the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) takes office, and even exchanged fire with Bangladeshi troops, in a deadly border dispute in April 2001: So, in effect, India waged a proxy war; when all they really wanted to do was purchase a few politicians.
“Pakistan won (the war). They are a sovereign nation. India did not annex them: Pakistan stopped India from annexing that part by opening up the western front”.
U.S. Brigadier Air Force General (rtd.) Chuck Yeager
As part of the Indian-Mukti Bahini ethnic-cleansing programme, intended to make Bangladesh an ethically Bengali and Hindu state: West Pakistani civilians were taken hostage by Indian occupation forces after the war.
“Did 93,000 Pakistani troops surrender in East Pakistan? The number of 93,000 soldiers that is talked about has been conflated with civilians: Pakistan had only one corps comprising three divisions in East Pakistan during 1971. In fact when Operation Searchlight (a counterinsurgency operation against Indian terrorism) began on 25th March 1971, the total number of Pakistani troops on ground were around 27,000. It (exaggerating the number of troops in country) was also helpful in putting meat to the story of three million killed, hundreds and thousands of rapes and genocide. An army of less than 40,000, spread over a large theatre of conflict under attack from guerrillas supported by Indian army was hardly in a situation of doing what it was accused of”.
Dr. Junaid Ahmad, ‘93,000 Pakistani soldiers did not surrender in 1971 because….?’, Global Village Space, April 2017
“The number of regular Pakistani troops in East Pakistan never exceeded 33,000-34,000. The rest is just propaganda by India and the Awami League, to magnify their success….”
Air Marshal Rahim Khan, CNC Pakistan Air Force (1969-1972)
“…Mukti Bahini (trained and led by RAW with RAW operatives manning this insurgent organization) not only massacred non-Bengalis and pro-Pakistan Bengalis, it also killed and raped Bengali population wearing the uniform of the Pakistani army to drive a wedge between people and the armed forces.”
Hussain Saqib, ‘Fall of East Pakistan and massacre of Bengalis and non-Bengalis by RAW and Mukti Bahini’, Passive Voices, December 14th 2012.
“It was impossible for the 34,000 or so Pakistani troops in East Pakistan or, for that matter, any army in the world to fight against the combined strength of 200,000 Indian army and 100,000 Mukti Bahini, if not more, that too in a hostile environment 1200 miles away from West Pakistan … Keeping into account all this, if the Indians still feel that they achieved a stunning military victory against Pakistan, I can only say they have fallen prey to their own propaganda”.
General Akhtar Abdul Rehman. Former Vice Chief of Army Staff
“……In 1971, it was certainly not possible for the 35,000 Pakistani troops in Dhaka to fight against the combined strength of 200,000 Indian army and the more than 100,000 Indian-trained Bengali guerrillas.”
U.S. congressman, Charlie Wilson
“The total strength of the Pakistani Army in East Pakistan (in 1971) was approximately 35-40,000….”
S. M. Hali, Political Analyst, ‘Breaking Myths of 1971 Pak-India War’
“We must not be misled by 1971. It was certainly not possible for the 40,000 odd Pakistani army in Dhaka to fight against much a larger Indian army and Indian-trained Bengali Bahinis in hostile territory …”
U.S. congressman, Stephen Solarz, commenting on the War of 1971 in June 1989
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