1971 War

[phoenixdesi]

Re: 1971 War

@Ali_Syed

There were many reasons, they were more politically aware. After all Punjabi was also sacrificed which at that time was the second largest language. Their population was larger than west Pakistan, there was no land link. When the majority would have decided they would have seceded. I have never supported the high handed tactics by Pakistani army in that conflict. However I feel that we look at the conflict only from one direction, we don’t know what happened from the other side. The figures of casualties like I mentioned are highly inflated.

Ali just one observation though… i am punjabi and i know how punjabi urban families treat punjabi. they hate punjabi language, they are embarrassed of it, they punish their kids if they ever speak punjabi. they consider it an extremely backward language. am i wrong?

so you cannot say that punjabi was sacrificsed. Hell, no serious punjabi literature is there. Bangalis on other hand loved their language, were proud of it and had a huge association with it. By 71, language may not be a major issue but when urdu was imposed as language of paakistan it did create a lot of rift among banagalis. thx