Countless nations, including the sole superpower of today, have 'overlooked grievances and the basic rights of their citizens'. Pakistan does not even come close to the slavery and segregation practiced by the United States government against its citizens.
Almost all nations make mistakes while evolving, and Pakistan was no different. The difference between Pakistan and the US however was that there was a hostile nation with a leadership that espoused a hatred for Pakistan so deep (read Indira Gandhi's quotes about 'never accepting Pakistan), that it chose to exacerbate that domestic tension and fan the flames of discontent - I will not go into detail on that here, but I argued that very point in the "Pakistan should apologize to Bangladesh" thread, and Sam Manekshaw's statements are the most damning of all when it comes to Indian complicity and intent in East Pakistan.
"Bad policies" did not break Pakistan - the roots lay in Bengali nationalism and the geography of the country, bad policies did widen the divide between East and West, but whether those differences could have been bridged we will never know since India chose to step in and inflame the situation.
Whatever reasons you want to attribute to India's intervention in East Pakistan, the fact is, as you admit, that India intervened without any near term threat to it from Pakistan. I have used the same argument to justify possible Indian intervention in Pakistan in the present, without any major threat to India from Pakistan currently (as was the case in 1971), and pointed out similar sentiments in Indian circles (to those of Indira's non-acceptance of Pakistan) of a 'prosperous Pakistan' being against India's interests.
Sir, a type of jealous and competition is very likely between neighbouring countries. Pakistani and Indians both have to accept this as a human nature. And no wonder why India is competitive with china also and try to achieve a growth rate like china. But, for example, even if Thailand is bigger in size than Malaysia, an Islamic country, Malaysia is better developed than Thailand. Until your neighbours don’t interfere in your internal matters, only you are responsible to make your country better than others.
India’s intervention in East Pakistan was on the invitation of the people of Bangladesh who were facing cruel behaviour from Pakistani military. 1000s of murder and rapes were done from Pakistani military in East Pakistan. More than a million had to be displaced to India also. I don’t have to give reference of the websites, you may just go to Google and find out the pictures of the cruel behaviour of Pakistan with Bangladeshi people. Bangladeshi government still demands apology from Pakistani government for what Pakistan did in Bangladesh.
And here, one healthy advice I may give you. Bangladesh is a free democratic nation, why not Pakistan tries to convince Bangladesh to join with Pakistan again? no one can stop two free nations to come together. try.
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