I still mourn, do you ?
Sun Online Desk
20th December, 2020 09:39:01
East Pakistan, the eastern wing of the country, died on 16 December 1971 at the Paltan Maidan in Dacca ( now spelled Dhaka). On its debris emerged a new country, Bangladesh, as a result of a big conspiracy and naked aggression by India in the garb of the Mukti Bahini, a force patronized by the neighbouring country through Shaikh Mujibur Rehman.
It was on this day, perhaps the darkest day in the history of Pakistan so far and also for the future, that the then Commander Eastern Command, Lt Gen A.A.K. Niazi, had surrendered before the Indian Armys Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Arora at a ceremony symbolically laying down his pistol. The very presence of the Indian general established the bitter fact that it was India, and none else, who had caused the separation of East Pakistan from West Pakistan and breaking the country which had emerged on the world map only on 14 August 1947 out of nowhere, and which was hardly