Aik aur latka diya Hasina nay....

[muqawwee123]

Re: Aik aur latka diya Hasina nay…

@Jolie

Ironically, (and I really can’t believe I’m saying this) but rigging could’ve stopped the war. **The establishment and Bhutto simply did not expect Mujib to do so well in East Pakistan. **Had they knew, they would’ve altered the results from the source to avoid that situation.

But truth of the matter is, electoral injustice was the final nail in the coffin. Things could neither go forward nor remain the same, after that point.

I have doubts with the bold statement. Bhutto was even not popular in Balochistan and KPK (then NWFP) provinces and PPP did not win from these provinces (as far as I know). It was Bhutto’s first election and I didn’t read anywhere that PPP had an election campaign in East Pakistan. Further, the article I posted above about text books also refers to 1970 Bhola cycle killing around 500,000 people in East Pakistan and there was no support from west wing in such circumstances. This might have lead to hatred for any party purely belonging to west wing. Bhutto was shrewd enough to read all this, but we don’t know why establishment (to whom Bhutto was favorite at that time) could not timely acted.