When I saw the pictures of Bangladesh’s Muhammad Younus who were receiving his award, the only thing which came in my mind that this could be the 2nd Nobel Prize which could be associated with Pakistan.

Like other people of my generation, I was also fooled by our text books about history of Bangladesh or fall of Dhaka. It was a managed propaganda by government machineries that Bengalis were traitors and they always wanted to have a separate state. Now if we follow this theory that only traitors demand a separate nation then in this way Mr.Jinnah is the biggest traitor because he got a separate state? No nation or community to prefer shedding the blood of their loved ones, they always have reasons to go for such extreme action. Our elders lost their loved ones and our mothers and sisters were raped when they were crossing the border. It is not because they loved to experience that but they had some goal some mission in their minds, a separate state where they can practice every thing freely but they didn’t know that their future generations would not even hesitate to offend both founding fathers but the state as well. Religious loonies used Pakistan to preach their own religion while secular forces tried to poison the environment by injecting their own version of Pakistan.

I was not in this world when East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh and my all source of information was nothing but our text books. Naturally no ruler likes to reveal their own sins therefore neither Bhutto nor Zia later tried to tell facts about the issue. Forget the text books, they didn’t even publish Hamood-ur-Rahman report unless India published it in the year of 2000 and made it public after having enormous pressure of human rights violation in Kashmir.

I had been thinking for last few weeks to make a read about all this issue. I had two resources, the Internet and biography of people like Qudratullah Shahb who worked closely to Mr.Ayub Khan. Unfortunately I couldn’t find much in it. I don’t know why many prominent scholars of that time failed to raise voice against this accident. Why they failed to raise voice against colonization by Punjab which still exists in Pakistan? Was it because most of them belonged to Punjab? I don’t know, they knows better or Allah.

I had to Google to find some relevant and unbiased material which I know is not an easy and possible task. Anti-Pakistanis Bengalis will curse to Pakistan and vice versa. Since After gulf war I have stopped taking media seriously and I just don’t believe in something because it was said by some big celebrity, I again preferred to seek facts and figures and original texts to understand the whole situation. What I have learnt in past few days, I will try to present it here in short and simple words. I can’t claim that would be all true but I believe that whatever I have read and would share here is more than 85% true.

• Mujeeb’s six points agenda

What I think that things started getting worst after Mujeeb-ur-Rahman gave his 6 points agenda to run the machinery of Pakistan which was later publicized as a ‘reason to get a separate state’ and people of that time would have believed in this bullshit spread by govt of that time.

These points were first shared on February 12 1966. the points are given below:

1. The Constitution should provide for a Federation of Pakistan in the true sense on the basis of the Lahore Resolution and for a parliamentary form of government based on the supremacy of a directly elected legislature on the basis of universal adult franchise.

2. The Federal Government shall deal with only two subjects; Defense and Foreign Affairs. All residuary subjects will be vested in the federating states.

3. There should be either two separate, freely convertible currencies for the two Wings, or one currency with two separate reserve banks to prevent inter-Wing flight of capital.

4. The power of taxation and revenue collection shall be vested in the federating units. The Federal Government will receive a share to meet its financial obligations.

5. Economic disparities between the two Wings shall disappear through a series of economic, fiscal, and legal reforms.

6. A militia or paramilitary force must be created in East Pakistan, which at present has no defense of it own.

Now where the heck Mujeeb was willing to get a separate state? I don’t smell any traitor attitude in his agenda. What’s wrong in first point? Was it not the core reason to get a separate state or Jinnah was all up to get a secular state so that he could secure Hindus of India because they were not safe in united India?

I personally believe that whatever mentioned in second point is necessary and it’s still necessary because federal government [read Punjab] has NO right to dictate provinces to run according to their own interest. Points 3,4 and 5 were also valid.

Several people of that time made an issue of last point that Mujeeb wants a separate state this is why he’s demanding a separate military system. Now tell me that a faction of country which is thousand miles away from other part and which is associated with India which could never be trusted , how on earth military force which stay thousand miles away in Pakistan could go to help the guys in EP[East Pakistan] during war. Did they think they had some sulemani cap that they wouldn’t come Indian radar systems or they had some super sonic flying carpet which could send them in WP [West Pakistan?]. What was wrong in it? It just reflects that people in West Pakistan had NO trust in people of East Pakistan or Mujeeb? What else message was being given to EP? Naturally WP didn’t accept the agenda and tension created between two factions due to this agenda which was very valid and I believe many of the point mentioned in it are still valid for Pakistani provinces.

Now the question is that why Mujeeb had to given this six points agenda. Story is long but let me try to summarize it.

• Reasons behind 6-points agenda

As I already mentioned above that above six points given by Mujeeb doesn’t declare him a traitor and Indian agent. IMHO, there are some valid reasons that he had to produce this agenda.

1. At the time of partition, population of EP was greater than WP but they were given little amount of whole income.[ This situation is not different than Karachi which generates around 60% of revenue of entire country but enjoy less facilities than Lahore, Islamabad and few other provinces of Punjab. East Pakistan produced 70% of all exports of Pakistan between 1948 and 1960 which is a big percentage but it only receives only 25% of it.

1. After partition, EP had 11 textile mills while west had only 9. In 1971 number of textile mills increased up to 150 while in West while in East they were only 26[Again I would compare this situation with Karachi which had most Industries than other part of Pakistan but after 90s conflict between MQM and Govt/Army, they kept getting decreased and now Karachi is going to become a starving zone rather Industrial where as in Punjab, several industries are being established in Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad regions].

2. transfer of 2.6 billion dollars of resources from East to West Pakistan.
3. Most of the income generated by East was “utilized” in Kashmir cause which I know was fake and majority of all amount would have gone in pockets of Big people of that time. Kashmiris were not helped after partition as well when Kashmir was sold in Rs.7.5 million by Dogra Raj of that time. There was no Pakistani aid at that time for the Mujahideen of Kashmirs and whatever they made efforts to fee the area from Dogara regime was their own efforts. Pakistani govt was rather busy in making comities and was playing pathetic game of beurocracy with Liquat Ali Khan and Hussein Shaeed Soharwardy.
4. The demand of separate militia for East Pakistan was not unfair as well. During 65 war, West Pakistan left East region all alone and utilized all forces to protect the western region. Thanks to Allah and then China that war didn’t last long. What if India would have attacked on West Pakistan? Could Pakistan survive? I am sure that if this last for few more weeks or months then India could attack on East Pakistan and we could see Bangladesh in 65 rather in 71 . there were para military forces like Gilgit rangers and Punjab Militia at that time to protect West Pakistan who even had fought in 71 war but East was declared a traitor faction just because they had similar demands. Totally unfair!
5. Pakistani President Yahya had no time to visit the victim of 1970 cyclone and he just stayed for a day or so after coming back from China.
6. Mujeeb was declared or labeled as Indian agent. If it was all true then why did he condemned the Indian aggression and gave full support to 1965 warfare. I believe that 65 war was the best opportunity for Mujeeb to team up with India and screw the West Pakistan by halting financial aid and other things but he didn’t.
7. Last but not least, the 4th five year plan for 1970-1975 which reveals everything that how East was being ignored by filthy morons in Islamabad.

See the figures here

These figures tells everything that how gradually east portion was being raped, still.. still they had not demanded a separate state and preferred to give a 6-points agenda which was not illegitimate . What did people in West Pakistan used to think, they had believed that they could be master of Bengalis and play dirty politics by suppressing them by several means. Sorry, this is not jungle that one can impose jungle laws here. (Contd..)

Part-II

Tagged:1971 War,Bangladesh,Pakistani Politics

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