1971 War

[Ali_Syed]

Re: 1971 War

@phoenixdesi

shah sahib, yae aap kaya keh rahya hain…yes we dont have much common with them but if we exclude east pakistan from pakistan movement, not much is left behind. muslim league was conceived in east pakistan. remember nawab waqar ul malk and all others who founded muslim league in dacca in 1906. east pakistan played a big role in pakistan movement but we always keep that portion low key in our history books. as a matter of fact, central india and east pakistan played the biggest role in pakistan movement. our current punjab was ruled by land lords and other than lahore and muslim students in some of its institutions, i dont think current punjab was very active in pakistan movement.

bangladesh was pakistan and pakistan is bangladesh. maybe you are suggesting that bangladesh should have been separated as a separate muslim country but banagalis were equally passionate about pakistan movement.

I know that, the politicians from East Pakistan were the forefront of the Pakistan movement. But looking back now, I don’t think the idea of a scattered Pakistan was feasible. Punjab didn’t want to be part of Pakistan till the very end, they wanted their unified kind of greater Punjab. But Quaid e Azam believed Pakistan is not possible without Punjab. In mid 40’s Punjab jumped into the band wagon.