“Udhar tum, idhar hum”: when Bhutto pushed Bangladesh to the edge of Pakistan

The fall of Dhaka is one of those events in our history that we’d rather forget. nobody talks regarding it today, as a result of it had been the results of our own follies. however those that are still alive can ne'er be ready to forget TV announcer Shaista Jabeen’s tearful announcement that dreadful night in December:

 “According to an agreement, Indian troopers have currently taken control of Dhaka.”

The individuals in what remained of Pakistan were afraid beyond belief. For days that they had been told that everything was traditional within the eastern wing, despite the BBC giving a contrastive image. As always, the reaction from those that mattered was that BBC was an indian agent, presenting a false image of things. No surprise violent protesters came out on the streets and burned down then president Yahya Khan’s house in metropolis once feeling betrayed because of the surrender.

Most of the Pakistanis who were born once 1965 in all probability don’t apprehend that our country had a province referred to as Bangladesh, wherever the Pakistan movement started with the birth of the Muslim League in 1905. The individuals of that province were pretty much as good of Pakistanis as we in Islamic Republic of Pakistan were, nonetheless to our eternal shame, they were denied what was truly theirs. we tend to created fun of them, of the means they spoke, of their language and apparel. Most of the income for Islamic Republic of Pakistan was contributed from East Pakistan; but, the cash was spent to develop Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Despite all of this discrimination, we tend to were surprisingly astonished once we pointed out they didn’t wish to stay a part of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. To be honest, the sole stunning factor during this ought to be that Islamic Republic of Pakistan was even ready to stay united for twenty five years before being dismembered.

There are several versions of why we tend to lost Bangladesh, counting on who you raise. However, one factor is for sure: it didn’t happen nightlong. It took a few years for the individuals of East Islamic Republic of Pakistan to make your mind up that there was no future for them in an exceedingly united Pakistan.

Perhaps it all began once Muhammad Ali jinnah, despite the hostility of the scholars of Dhaka University he was addressing, insisted that “Urdu and only Urdu” would be the state language of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This was strange, since the Quaid himself may only speak broken Urdu which too with great problem. I strongly suspect jinnah needed Urdu because the national language as a result of he was besieged from the feudal lords of Islamic Republic of Pakistan to do thus. the only different reason would be that he failed to apprehend that the vast majority of individuals in Bangladesh didn’t speak Urdu or maybe understood it, that appears extremely unlikely.