Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a forgotten Genocide (1971)

[Levina]

Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a forgotten genocide

In ‘Blood Telegram’, Gary Bass used documents from the US archives to expose why Kissinger and Nixon allowed the violence that took place during the creation of the country, Bangladesh.

By Manik Mehta Special to Weekend Review
January 21, 2015

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A recent book, which has received several literary awards and has been authored by renowned Princeton University professor Gary Bass, exposes the indifference of former American president Richard Nixon and his then national security adviser Henry Kissinger: both ignored warnings by US diplomats on the ground imploring them to stop the large-scale violence against Bengalis and alleged atrocities committed by Pakistani troops in East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh); instead, both Nixon and Kissinger turned a blind eye because Pakistan was helping Nixon open up a channel of communication with Mao’s reclusive China.
Nixon and Kissinger — the latter would become secretary of state — saw China as a counterweight to the rising power of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The book, “Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide”, has won a number of prestigious awards recently, including the 2014 Cundill Prize for historical literature, the 2014 Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Bernard Schwarz Book Award 2014, conferred by the Asia Society in New York. According to Bass, not only did both Nixon and Kissinger turn a blind eye to the alleged actions of the Pakistan army but also supported the military dictator General Yahya Khan, who was alleged to have ordered mass killings of Bengalis in 1971 in East Pakistan. According to the CIA, 200,000 Bengalis were massacred, including thousands of Hindus. However, Bangladeshi sources speak of three million deaths and tens of thousands of rapes committed against Bengali women.

About 10 million refugees from East Pakistan poured into India, forcing the Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi to launch an operation to enable the refugees to return to their native land which later became independent Bangladesh. India helped create the country. During a recent discussion at the Asia Society and, later, at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Bass told Weekend Review that “Blood Telegram” recounts a “very dark period” in Pakistan’s history.

He revealed that the material collated for his book “took four long years” but the “most useful material I had access to were the White House tapes, although they were a nightmare”. Bass meticulously pored over the material, relying on declassified documents from US archives; he had also wanted to evaluate Indian documents, but the “Indian archives were in a terrible condition”.

“Blood Telegram” highlights the human tragedy that unfolded in East Pakistan following the refusal by Yahya Khan, in connivance with Zulkifar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan’s foreign minister at the time, to accept the election victory of the East Pakistani leader Mujibur Rahman.

Many historians and human rights activists have criticised Nixon and Kissinger for not stopping the bloodshed, although they had the power to do so. The duo was fixated on using Pakistan to help open a direct channel of communication with Mao’s China and pave the way for Nixon’s visit, the first-ever by a US President to China, the following year.

Indeed, Nixon even calls Yahya Khan a “decent man” and empathises with the latter, generating shock and disapproval among many Americans, particularly American diplomats based in Dhaka where they witnessed mass killings of civilians. Nixon showed a special affinity for Yahya Khan, who had been friendly with the American president during the latter’s lean political times.

“Pakistan is a Cold War ally of the US. Nixon has an emotional investment in liking Pakistan and at the same time an emotional investment in hating India and Indira Gandhi. There are suggestions that the US could have warned Pakistan [to stop the bloodshed] but this was not happening. US military supplies were used against Bengalis, raising a lot of resentment against the US,” Bass said at the CFR.

Archer Blood, then US consul-general in Dhaka, around whom the narration is woven and from whom the book gets its title, is named. He risked his entire career when he sent bluntly worded cables to the State Department about the ground situation in East Pakistan, imploring the administration to stop the madness.

A cable dated March 28, 1971 criticised the administration’s failure to denounce the atrocities. “We, as professional public servants, express our dissent with current policy and fervently hope that our true and lasting interests here can be defined and our policies redirected in order to salvage our nation’s position as a moral leader of the free world.” Bass said that Blood even hid Bengalis in his home to prevent them from being killed by Pakistani soldiers.

Blood’s cables infuriated both Nixon and Kissinger. “Blood and his senior staff took a big risk on their careers and professions when they expressed their disapproval of Washington’s attitude,” Bass said. When the then US secretary of state Will Rogers received this “miserable” cable, he informed Nixon about the “open rebellion” at the Dhaka consulate. Nixon was unmoved.

Bass said that Nixon also wanted to fire Kenneth B. Keating, then US ambassador to India, because he had refused to toe Nixon’s line. Nixon, known for his bouts of rage, called Keating a “traitor” and wanted to fire him because he was allegedly supporting the Indians. Nixon and Kissinger frequently resorted to the use of invectives against Indira Gandhi. Nixon, given to mood swings, once compared Yahya Khan to Abraham Lincoln, while on another occasion called the Pakistani president a “Hitler”, according to Bass. (Psychopath for sure )

The documents show that Nixon’s friendship with Yahya Khan and his interest in China played a role in US policymaking, leading to what came to be known as the “tilt” towards Pakistan. They exposed the illegal American military assistance approved by Nixon and Kissinger to Pakistan, violating the arms embargo against Pakistan at that time.

Not only did the US publicly pronounce India as the aggressor in the war, but also sent the nuclear submarine “USS Enterprise” to the Bay of Bengal, and authorised the transfer of US military supplies to Pakistan. Nixon had also asked China to move its troops to India’s northeastern borders with China so as to put pressure on India. At the CFR discussion, Bass revealed that he had tried to talk to Kissinger to get his views for his book. However, Kissinger did not respond to Bass’s two requests for an interview.
The book, which shows Kissinger in poor light, has been attacked by some close associates of the former secretary of state, though Kissinger himself did not personally attack the book or directly contact the author.

“I tried to contact Kissinger to get his views for the book because I wanted to have a balance and also give him an opportunity to present his views. But he did not respond,” Bass said.
The scale of the alleged killings would normally have shaken the world’s conscience. However, unlike the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunals set up to try war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, there has been no accountability from those in West Pakistan responsible for the violence in Bangladesh. “It was a tragic human cost for the China opening,” Bass observed.

Could Nixon and Kissinger have stopped the violence in 1971? Many US critics privately told Weekend Review that Nixon and Kissinger should not have used Yahya Khan’s go-between role with China, and exercised their leverage to prevent the mass killings. Nixon had options other than blindly rushing to establish direct contacts with China which was then, anyway, slowly opening itself through its so-called ping-pong diplomacy. Nixon also had the option of using Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu’s help to open a back channel with China. During his 1970 US visit, Ceausescu had discussed the question of China’s opening but Nixon decided later that Pakistan, not Romania, would be the conduit.
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A must read book!!!
@nair @acetophenol @kurup @sreekumar @SarthakGanguly @Abingdonboy @utraash

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Read it long back.

 

[Levina]

Read it long back.

great!
I must find this book now.

How good is it?

 

[SarthakGanguly]

great!
I must find this book now.

How good is it?

How Good? Just one massacre after another.
Then the failed lobbying of a few 'good men' to garner support.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

All BS & Heresay .. which have yet to be proved after over 4 decades .....Archer Blood himself accepted some of his fuk ups in his book.

There are only 2 well researched books on 71..

War & Succesion by Leo Rose and Rochard Sissoun

Memories of 1971 war - Dead Reckoning by Sarmila Bose!

 

[ayesha.a]

All BS & Heresay .. which have yet to be proved after over 4 decades .....Archer Blood himself accepted some of his fuk ups in his book.

There are only 2 well researched books on 71..

War & Succesion by Leo Rose and Rochard Sissoun

Memories of 1971 war - Dead Reckoning by Sarmila Bose!

By "well researched", you mean those are the only ones you would agree with, right? The atrocities perpetrated by the Pak army in East Pakistan is well documented and accepted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/books/review/the-blood-telegram-by-gary-j-bass.html?pagewanted=all

In 1971, the Pakistani Army had free rein to kill at least 300,000 Bengalis and force 10 million people to flee.

In the 40-odd years that America and the Soviet Union faced off in the cold war, the people who presumed to run the world started with the knowledge that it was too dangerous, and possibly even suicidal, to attack one another. But the struggle was fierce, and what that meant in practice was that the competition played out in impoverished places like Cuba and Angola, where the great statesmen vied, eyed and subverted one another, and sometimes loosed their local proxies, all in the name of maintaining the slippery but all-important concept known as the balance of power.

THE BLOOD TELEGRAM
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
By Gary J. Bass
Illustrated. 499 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30.

The peace held, of course — that is, the larger peace. The United States and the Soviet Union never came to blows, and the nuclear-tipped missiles never left their silos. For the third world, where the competition unfolded, it was another matter entirely. The wreckage spread far and wide, in toppled governments, loathsome dictators, squalid little wars and, here and there, massacres so immense that entire populations were nearly destroyed.

In “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide,” Gary J. Bass, a professor of politics at Princeton, has revived the terrible and little-known story of the birth of Bangladesh in 1971, and of the sordid and disgraceful White House diplomacy that attended it. This is a dark and amazing tale, an essential reminder of the devastation wrought by the hardhearted policy and outright bigotry that typified much of the diplomacy of the cold war. It is not a tale without heroes, though; a number of American diplomats — most especially a man named Archer Blood — risked and even sacrificed their careers by refusing to knuckle under to the White House and telling the truth about what was happening on the ground.

The story begins, as do so many in our modern world, with the end of the British Empire. In 1947, when the British quit India, they lopped off its majority Muslim flanks in the east and west. At the time, the partition unfolded in a frenzy of murder and expulsion, leaving a million people dead. Pakistan emerged as one of the largest countries in the world, but improbably divided into two parts by more than a thousand miles of Indian territory. When you look at a map from that time, you have to wonder what on earth the cartographers were thinking.

Pakistan carried on for 23 years like that, with the more numerous Bengalis in the east feeling increasingly neglected by their Punjabi brethren in the west, where the capital was. Things came to a head in December 1970, when Sheik Mujib-ur-Rahman, a pipe-smoking Bengali leader, and his party, the Awami League, won the elections on the promise of autonomy for East Pakistan. (Whatever he wanted privately, he did not call for independence.) Rahman never got a chance to form a government. Gen. Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, egged on by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the second-place finisher, arrested Rahman and ordered the army to crush the Bengalis. Dominated by Punjabis, the army moved brutally, shooting and detaining Bengali leaders, intellectuals and anyone who opposed them.

Enter the United States. At the time of the elections, Pakistan, though ruled by a military dictator, was an American ally with an American-equipped military; India, the giant democracy, considered itself nonaligned — a neutral player in the Soviet-American standoff. Given what was happening on the ground — the Pakistani Army acting wantonly, ignoring the results of an election — you might expect the White House to restrain the Pakistani generals. So one arrives at the devastating heart of Bass’s book. (Note: I have interviewed Bass and met him socially a couple of times.)

At the time of the crackdown in East Pakistan, President Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, were trying to establish relations with the People’s Republic of China, which was only then emerging from the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Nixon wanted desperately to extract the United States from Vietnam in something less than a catastrophic way and, as focused as ever on the Soviet Union, he and Kissinger believed that opening a channel to China could help them with the war while, at the same time, delivering a blow to the Soviets by exploiting their rivalry with the Chinese. Pakistan and, in particular, Yahya, its military leader, became Nixon’s secret liaison with the Chinese leader Zhou Enlai. Yahya helped lay the groundwork for the visits to China by Kissinger and then Nixon. It’s hard to overstate just how earth-changing Nixon and Kissinger regarded their trips to China — and how important they thought they were for bringing them about.

In practice, this meant that Yahya — a vain, shallow mediocrity — was suddenly considered indispensable, free to do whatever he wished in East Pakistan. With the White House averting its eyes, the largely Muslim Pakistani Army killed at least 300,000 Bengalis, most of them Hindus, and forced 10 million to flee to India. Bass lays out his indictment of the White House: Nixon and Kissinger spurned the cables, written by their own diplomats in Dacca (the capital of East Pakistan), that said West Pakistan was guilty of carrying out widespread massacres. Archer Blood, the counsel general in Dacca, sent an angry cable that detailed the atrocities and used the word “genocide.” The men in the White House, however, not only refused to condemn Yahya — in public or private — but they also declined to withhold American arms, ammunition and spare parts that kept Pakistan’s military machine humming. Indeed, Nixon regarded the dictator with genuine affection. “I understand the anguish you must have felt in making the difficult decisions you have faced,” he told Yahya.

The voices of Kissinger and Nixon are the book’s most shocking aspects. Bass has unearthed a series of conversations, most of them from the White House’s secret tapes, that reveal Nixon and Kissinger as breathtakingly vulgar and hateful, especially in their attitudes toward the Indians, whom they regarded as repulsive, shifty and, anyway, pro-Soviet — and especially in their opinion of Indira Gandhi. “The old bitch,” Nixon called her. “I don’t know why the hell anybody would reproduce in that damn country but they do,” he said.

These sorts of statements will probably not surprise the experts, but what is most telling is what they reveal about Nixon’s and Kissinger’s strategic intelligence. At every step of the crisis, the two men appear to have been driven as much by their loathing of India — West Pakistan’s rival — as by any cool calculations of power. By failing to restrain West Pakistan, they allowed a blood bath to unfold, and then a regional war, which began when Gandhi finally decided that the only way to stop the tide of refugees was to stop the killing across the border. That, in turn, prompted West Pakistan to attack India.

At this point, the recklessness of Nixon and Kissinger only got worse. They dispatched ships from the Seventh Fleet into the Bay of Bengal, and even encouraged China to move troops to the Indian border, possibly for an attack — a maneuver that could have provoked the Soviet Union. Fortunately, the leaders of the two Communist countries proved more sober than those in the White House. The war ended quickly, when India crushed the Pakistani Army and East Pakistan declared independence.

Nixon and Kissinger spent the decades after leaving office burnishing their images as great statesmen. This book goes a long way in showing just how undeserved those reputations are.


Dexter Filkins, a staff writer for The New Yorker, was formerly a correspondent in South Asia for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

A version of this review appears in print on September 29, 2013, on page BR15 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Collateral Damage.

 

[Armstrong]

Pray tell me; how can a Diplomat in a country ravaged by Civil War have the luxury of going on a fact-finding mission to piece together what really happened ?

And barring conjecture; where exactly are the facts ?

 

[Kompromat]

Time to move on.

 

[wadi79]

All BS & Heresay .. which have yet to be proved after over 4 decades .....Archer Blood himself accepted some of his fuk ups in his book.

There are only 2 well researched books on 71..

War & Succesion by Leo Rose and Rochard Sissoun

Memories of 1971 war - Dead Reckoning by Sarmila Bose!

Yeah - the 1971 massacres were a false flag operation by Bangladeshi intelligence to defame Pakistan, just like 9/11 was masterminded by CIA and 26/11 was masterminded by RAW.

On the other hand, sometimes its a good idea to give conspiracy theories a rest and accept that terrible things were done by your people/your army. In all likelihood, you weren't born at that time and obviously had no role to play in the evil that was perpetrated. But knowing what was done will help such a tragedy from recurring. If you can't find it in your heart that bit of honesty, I am sorry for you.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Pray tell me; how can a Diplomat in a country ravaged by Civil War have the luxury of going on a fact-finding mission to piece together what really happened ?

And barring conjecture; where exactly are the facts ?

As I said Heresay .. He heard it from someone who heard it from someone else and so on . It's been over 40 fkin years and all this BS is yet to be proven ..

Yeah - the 1971 massacres were a false flag operation by Bangladeshi intelligence to defame Pakistan, just like 9/11 was masterminded by CIA and 26/11 was masterminded by RAW.

On the other hand, sometimes its a good idea to give conspiracy theories a rest and accept that terrible things were done by your people/your army. In all likelihood, you weren't born at that time and obviously had no role to play in the evil that was perpetrated. But knowing what was done will help such a tragedy from recurring. If you can't find it in your heart that bit of honesty, I am sorry for you.

I'm sorry I didn't give a fuk .. Try again.

 

[Pakistani shaheens]

One should not forget that people from both sides died in this war. And indians themselves admitted that they played a key role in flaming this riot. Saying that Pakistanis are only responsible and that we raped and killed so many people is just far away from reality and only exist in the fictional world of bollywood and it holds no reality. Many Pakistanis were massacred and raped by indian aided gurilla fighters inorder to pave a path for the 1971 incidence.
By keep on posting these sort of conspiracy which holds no reality is just the tactics of indians to comes in the good books of bangladeshis inorder to keep them away from the fact that they have been paralyzed by indians and soon will become their official sate in future.

Guerilla fighters of the Mukti Bahini prepare to bayonet men who allegedly collaborated with the Pakistani army during East Pakistan's fight to become the independent state of Bangladesh
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After the fall of Dhaka, Indian army and Mukti Bahini arranged mass slaughter ceremonies of Pakistanis and Bihari Muslims in Dhaka Race course ground. Thousands of Bengali Muslims were also butchered who had sided with Pakistan against India and Mukti Bahini.

In front of cheering crowds of Mukti Bahini terrorists and Indian army troops, one by one, these Pakistanis were brought, tortured, their eyes taken out and they were bayoneted in sadistic macabre rituals to please the Hindu gods.Never ever forget what Hindus did to Muslims in East Pakistan. You were never told this history before. This is what Hindus do when they get power over Muslims! By Allah, we will take revenge for every shaheed from 1947 till today, especially for the Muslims of East Pakistan who died in such helpless pain. Recite Fatiha for these brave sons of Pakistan who died because they love the Sabz Hilali parcham!



Most of these young Pakistani Bengali and Biharis who were butchered by the Indian Army one by one belonged to two students groups Al-Badr and Al-Shams who were mostly from Jamaat-e-Islami and had supported Pakistan Army against India and Mukti Bahini. These were civilian Mujahideen who fought against Muktis. After the fall of Dhaka, Indian army refused to accept them as prisoners of war and arranged their slaughter in most painful way. These are the war crimes of the Indian army for which we will take revenge. That is a promise we make to our shaheeds. Just look at the arranged massacres and butchery in the Dhaka race course ground. Such massacres were arranged all over East Pakistan after the fall of Dhaka.





Today is December 16th, the most tragic day of our history when a sequence of systematic blunders broke Pakistan.

After 41 years, we have learned nothing!!

Today, Karachi is under a lock down by an urban Mukti Bahini. Peshawar airbase is under attack as we write. Baluchistan is out of bound for outsiders. Army is fighting a massive urban war and over 100,000 Pakistanis have died or wounded in an asymmetric urban war which is on going as we write. This war is NOT due to drones. Drone by CIA are only a fractional part of this larger war being fought against Pakistan on military, economic, political, judicial and media axis.

Still, the people ask us when will that war start which we said would hit Pakistan???? We can only say Innalillahe wa inna ilehe rajeoon! This is called 4th Generation War. This war is not fought on borders. This is fought in cities as we are facing now. Look at Syria, Libya, Iraq… where is the war being fought???? Major historical cities of these great Islamic countries have turned into ruin and rubble, still people ask when will the war start???


Hazrat Ali (RA) once said “when Allah wants to destroy a people, he makes them stupid and idiots first” !!

How can we have elections in the country when we are in the midst of this anarchic war??? Elections would bring back Zardari, Altaf Hussian, Nawaz and Asfandyar Wali. Have we not learned anything at all from the fall of Dhaka???

May Allah have mercy upon this millat e marhoom !!




41 years ago, in these dates in 1971, Pakistan was dismembered and East Pakistan was separated from us. It was one of the most tragic events in our history where a series of catastrophic blunders over many years and a corrupt, coward and morally debouch political and military leadership made sure that over a million Muslims die and Pakistan is broken under an Indian invasion. Most of you were not even born at that time and do not know what happened back then. Let us tell you them in a sequence so that you know why we are so staunchly against elections in these war times.

1. Agartala Conspiracy was caught in 1969, years before the fall of Dhaka in 1971. Allah had exposed the Indian game plan to hire traitors in East Pakistan and create armed groups, Mukti Bahini. The government of Ayub Khan wanted to put the traitors on trail but the politicians like Bhutto, Asghar Khan, Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, Mufti Mehmood and Jamaat Islami defended the traitors and protested against Ayub Khan. As a result, the cases were withdrawn and elections were announced knowing fully well that Indians had created armed gangs in East Pakistan. The stage for rebellion was now set.


2. Under the threat of Mukti Bahini, Mujeeb won the elections in East Pakistan. In West Pakistan, Bhutto won the elections. Now army had a crisis. Mujeeb wanted to become Prime Minister and here Bhutto wanted to become prime Minister. Bhutto raised a slogan “we here and you there”, Idhar Hum, Udhar Tum”!! Read Ahmad Reza Qasuri’s book on the subject. Once Mujeeb was sure that Bhutto will not let him become the PM, Mujeeb rebelled openly against Pakistan on March 15th 1971 in Dhaka. Mukti went on a rampage and killed over a million Pakistanis all over East Pakistan. Read ‘Blood and Tears’ by Qutubuddin Aziz.

3. After a million Pakistanis were slaughtered, Pak Army finally moved on March 25 to destroy Mukti bahini in operation Search Light. The anti-Mukti operations continued till November 1971 and almost all of East Pakistan was secured and protected from the traitors. But during this time, Indian army was massively busy in preparing to invade Pakistan after the Monsoon season. In Pakistan, Bhutto was now set to become the PM and was acting as the foreign Minister also. But both the army leadership led by Yahya and Bhutto failed to see the Indian preparations.

4. In November 1971, nearly half a million Indian army attacked from all sides into East Pakistan. Pak Army fought gallantly (see interview of General Manekshaw) but was outnumbered and outgunned almost 1:20 or at place 1:50. Only 45 lightly armed thousand Pakistani troops were fighting against nearly half a million Indian troops and quarter a million Mukti terrorists. (read stories of battle of Hilli and Kamalpur).

5. In West Pakistan, the corrupt leadership of Yahya Khan started the military operations so late that they failed to impact the battle situation on ground in East. Between November 22 1971 to December 16th 1971, the small and tired Pakistan Army in East Pakistan was totally surrounded, isolated, without air support, without supplies and fighting on a land which was already under Indian occupation. Indians could not defeat the army garrisons at any place but then used their air support to land directly around Dhaka, bypassing the defending Pak Army. General Niazi, the commander of the Easter Command was left with no option but to accept the surrender terms. Before that, Poland had moved a resolution in UN on December 12 to demand a cease fire and withdrawal of Pak Army. If that resolution was adopted, Pakistan army would not have to face the humiliation of surrender but Bhutto tore that resolution and the last opportunity for a political solution was lost. (Google Polish resolution, UN, 1971, Bhutto).

6. From march 1971 to December 1971, Pakistan army in East Pakistan had regained East Pakistan from Muktis and was putting up a brave fight against Indians to allow the political and military leadership in West Pakistan to find a political solution. But those many precious months were also wasted by General Yahya and Bhutto.

7. Once the news of fall of Dhaka reached West Pakistan, the nation went into a state of rage. Bhutto was out of the country and was saved but the officers of the army and the people rebelled against the top leadership and Yahya had to resign, handing over power to Bhutto as the entire leadership of the army was arrested.

Today, we face the same crisis. The leadership is treacherous and corrupt and Indians have created multiple Mukti Bahinis from Khyber to Karachi. Memo scandal have been caught where leaders have been found to be conspiring to destroy Pak Army. The whole country is now under a state of war and threat of civil war is real. Traitors are known but still army is being forced to conduct elections just as they did in 1970. Indian Cold Start military doctrine is deployed and waiting to roll into Pakistan once anarchy starts in Pakistan after the elections. Army is already fighting multiple insurgencies in the country and now is being asked to hold elections as well. This is exact repeat of 1971. We fear exact result of 1971.

It is our duty to raise the alarm which was NOT raised in 1971. We must learn from history or be condemned to repeat it. This is the law of nature.

When traitors rule and take part in fake democracy and political parties have armed wings and army comes under pressure and help the traitors to become rulers, then these tragedies become inevitable. Today, we have a choice. Tomorrow, the circumstances would decide our destiny.


For the last 41 years, the Indian and RAW funded snakes in media like Hamid Mir have been barking that Pakistan Army committed the genocide of Bengali Muslims in East Pakistan. The Muslims of Bangladesh still believe these lies as all history was written by Indian army and RAW who had taken over all records of history after fall of Dhaka in 1971. Now after decades, Bengali leaders are coming forwards to expose the lies which have been spread for the last 4 decades. It is time that Muslims of Bangladesh also realize that how Indians and Soviets made a total fool of them and used their leaders to break away from Pakistan. The horrendous atrocities were indeed committed but NOT by Pak army but by the Mukti Bahini, as recorded in Blood and Tears.

The total strength of Pak army was 40,000 in East Pakistan. Total number of prisoners of war were 92,000 which included thousands of Pakistan government officials, civilians, pro-Pakistan citizens and post offices railways and PIA officers and staff. It is NOT humanly possible to commit that levels of genocide as being accused on Pakistan Army. Now even the finest of Bengali leaders are coming forward to expose the lies. Their Zameer is hurting them now. They have betrayed the Ummat-e-Rasul (sm) and now when death is staring them in the face, they want to clean their conscious. Read this and know how the snakes in media and politics lied to you.

Almost 41 years ago, today, on December 9th 1971, Pakistan was fighting a desperate war of survival against an overwhelmingly powerful alliance of India-Soviets, Mukti Bahini traitors and the CIA to break Pakistan. We indeed suffered heavily and lost East Pakistan but there were also more heroic deeds of courage, valor and sacrifice and we inflicted most severe damage to the much superior Indian forces also. Even in desperate times, a brave commander and its vision can turn the tide in favor of the nation. Here, we bring to you a forgotten piece of history — full of romance, adventure and high intensity action in the deep seas.

In the coming days, we will expose all the players and reality of the 1971 tragedy, InshAllah. Know this history which the media will never tell you.


Iftikhar Chaudhry sahib, today you have passed a judgement against ISI’s role in politics. Let us ask you few questions. Is it OK for foreign secret services to pay money to Pakistani politicians and political parties??? Is it OK for foreign secret services to fix elections in Pakistan?? Is it OK for political parties in Pakistan to create terrorist gangs??? Is it OK for political parties in Pakistan to wage a war against Pakistan? If all this is happening in Pakistani politics, then why are you blocking ISI from keeping a check on Pakistani political parties???

1. Agartala sazish proved that Awami National Party took money from Indian RAW for a war against Pakistan and created Mukti Bahini. East Pakistan was broken because of that Indian sazish where the judiciary refused to punish the traitors and blocked ISI’s attempt to punish them. All cases were withdrawn against traitor politicians.

2. Al-Zulfiqar terrorist organization was created by Peoples Party and sons of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto for war against Pakistan after funding from India, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. PPP had a terrorist wing. Are you aware of this??? Sure you are.

3. Baluchistan Liberation Army was created by separatists Baloch politicians in 70’s and traitors like Najam Sethi were part of Hyderabad Conspiracy trial for waging a war against Pakistan through foreign funding. All were forgiven and cases withdrawn against them, even today. why????

4. Awami National Party of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan has been waging a war against Pakistan for 65 years through Soviet and Indian funding. Bhutto had formed treason against them too.

5. Today, even in the Senate elections, billions of Rupees have been spent by political parties and their foreign backers to fix the elections for traitors. It is all documented and known to the world and the SC.

6. Isn’t this a fact that USAID and US embassy is heavily involved in all political deals in Pakistan these days???? Wiki Leaks exposed that even Fazal-ur Rehman had asked the US embassy to make him the PM!!

So, when foreign powers are heavily funding political parties for war against Pakistan, why should ISI be forced to keep out of keeping a check on politicians??? Are you giving a free hand to the enemies to buy and sell the politicians for war against Pakistan? Can the SC guarantee that no foreign funding or influence would come from CIA or RAW on Pakistani politics ??? If the SC cannot give this guarantee and the history and facts prove that all hostile powers are heavily influencing Pakistani politics, then isn’t this destroying the country by blocking our own army and ISI ???????

May Allah deal with you as He feel fit. We will curse you in every dua we make. Aulia Allah were already doing that Bad-Dua. Now we know why. Astaghfirullah!!!!

Marvi Sermed, Imtiaz Alam, Asma Jahangir and Najam Sethi and the SAFMA are the snakes who now want to sell our honour to Hindus once again and would never talk of the brutal conspiracies of 1971 and the filthy role of Indians in breaking up Pakistan.

Read this article by Orya sahib and see what the former Mukti Bahini thinks of their dirty role in East Pakistan! Try to find the book mentioned in the article. In the end, Orya sahib mentions the awara media of Pakistan which will never discuss this aspect of Indian role in East Pakistan.

Today, senate has been sold through Indian money. Traitors, terrorists and seperatists have entered the Senate and would also do the same in general elections if they take place. Before this, the snakes want the role of ISI to be blocked so that RAW and CIA can do what they did in East Pakistan. By Allah, we know our enemies and this time, we will fight back!

 

[ayesha.a]

In front of cheering crowds of Mukti Bahini terrorists and Indian army troops, one by one, these Pakistanis were brought, tortured, their eyes taken out and they were bayoneted in sadistic macabre rituals to please the Hindu gods.Never ever forget what Hindus did to Muslims in East Pakistan.

You still think playing this muslim v/s hindu card will give you credibility?

And "To please hindu gods"? Really? Is it that difficult to spot the difference between reportage and creative fiction?

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

You still think playing this muslim v/s hindu card will give you credibility?

And "To please hindu gods"? Really? Is it that difficult to spot the difference between reportage and creative fiction?

Do you think propagating nonsense will give you any credbility on the global scale? Nobody even know about some crappy 71 propoganda or the pathetic 3 million dead n 3 hundred thousand raped BS!

One should not forget that people from both sides died in this war. And indians themselves admitted that they played a key role in flaming this riot. Saying that Pakistanis are only responsible and that we raped and killed so many people is just far away from reality and only exist in the fictional world of bollywood and it holds no reality. Many Pakistanis were massacred and raped by indian aided gurilla fighters inorder to pave a path for the 1971 incidence.
By keep on posting these sort of conspiracy which holds no reality is just the tactics of indians to comes in the good books of bangladeshis inorder to keep them away from the fact that they have been paralyzed by indians and soon will become their official sate in future.
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Guerilla fighters of the Mukti Bahini prepare to bayonet men who allegedly collaborated with the Pakistani army during East Pakistan's fight to become the independent state of Bangladesh
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After the fall of Dhaka, Indian army and Mukti Bahini arranged mass slaughter ceremonies of Pakistanis and Bihari Muslims in Dhaka Race course ground. Thousands of Bengali Muslims were also butchered who had sided with Pakistan against India and Mukti Bahini.

In front of cheering crowds of Mukti Bahini terrorists and Indian army troops, one by one, these Pakistanis were brought, tortured, their eyes taken out and they were bayoneted in sadistic macabre rituals to please the Hindu gods.Never ever forget what Hindus did to Muslims in East Pakistan. You were never told this history before. This is what Hindus do when they get power over Muslims! By Allah, we will take revenge for every shaheed from 1947 till today, especially for the Muslims of East Pakistan who died in such helpless pain. Recite Fatiha for these brave sons of Pakistan who died because they love the Sabz Hilali parcham!



Most of these young Pakistani Bengali and Biharis who were butchered by the Indian Army one by one belonged to two students groups Al-Badr and Al-Shams who were mostly from Jamaat-e-Islami and had supported Pakistan Army against India and Mukti Bahini. These were civilian Mujahideen who fought against Muktis. After the fall of Dhaka, Indian army refused to accept them as prisoners of war and arranged their slaughter in most painful way. These are the war crimes of the Indian army for which we will take revenge. That is a promise we make to our shaheeds. Just look at the arranged massacres and butchery in the Dhaka race course ground. Such massacres were arranged all over East Pakistan after the fall of Dhaka.





Today is December 16th, the most tragic day of our history when a sequence of systematic blunders broke Pakistan.

After 41 years, we have learned nothing!!

Today, Karachi is under a lock down by an urban Mukti Bahini. Peshawar airbase is under attack as we write. Baluchistan is out of bound for outsiders. Army is fighting a massive urban war and over 100,000 Pakistanis have died or wounded in an asymmetric urban war which is on going as we write. This war is NOT due to drones. Drone by CIA are only a fractional part of this larger war being fought against Pakistan on military, economic, political, judicial and media axis.

Still, the people ask us when will that war start which we said would hit Pakistan???? We can only say Innalillahe wa inna ilehe rajeoon! This is called 4th Generation War. This war is not fought on borders. This is fought in cities as we are facing now. Look at Syria, Libya, Iraq… where is the war being fought???? Major historical cities of these great Islamic countries have turned into ruin and rubble, still people ask when will the war start???


Hazrat Ali (RA) once said “when Allah wants to destroy a people, he makes them stupid and idiots first” !!

How can we have elections in the country when we are in the midst of this anarchic war??? Elections would bring back Zardari, Altaf Hussian, Nawaz and Asfandyar Wali. Have we not learned anything at all from the fall of Dhaka???

May Allah have mercy upon this millat e marhoom !!




41 years ago, in these dates in 1971, Pakistan was dismembered and East Pakistan was separated from us. It was one of the most tragic events in our history where a series of catastrophic blunders over many years and a corrupt, coward and morally debouch political and military leadership made sure that over a million Muslims die and Pakistan is broken under an Indian invasion. Most of you were not even born at that time and do not know what happened back then. Let us tell you them in a sequence so that you know why we are so staunchly against elections in these war times.

1. Agartala Conspiracy was caught in 1969, years before the fall of Dhaka in 1971. Allah had exposed the Indian game plan to hire traitors in East Pakistan and create armed groups, Mukti Bahini. The government of Ayub Khan wanted to put the traitors on trail but the politicians like Bhutto, Asghar Khan, Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, Mufti Mehmood and Jamaat Islami defended the traitors and protested against Ayub Khan. As a result, the cases were withdrawn and elections were announced knowing fully well that Indians had created armed gangs in East Pakistan. The stage for rebellion was now set.


2. Under the threat of Mukti Bahini, Mujeeb won the elections in East Pakistan. In West Pakistan, Bhutto won the elections. Now army had a crisis. Mujeeb wanted to become Prime Minister and here Bhutto wanted to become prime Minister. Bhutto raised a slogan “we here and you there”, Idhar Hum, Udhar Tum”!! Read Ahmad Reza Qasuri’s book on the subject. Once Mujeeb was sure that Bhutto will not let him become the PM, Mujeeb rebelled openly against Pakistan on March 15th 1971 in Dhaka. Mukti went on a rampage and killed over a million Pakistanis all over East Pakistan. Read ‘Blood and Tears’ by Qutubuddin Aziz.

3. After a million Pakistanis were slaughtered, Pak Army finally moved on March 25 to destroy Mukti bahini in operation Search Light. The anti-Mukti operations continued till November 1971 and almost all of East Pakistan was secured and protected from the traitors. But during this time, Indian army was massively busy in preparing to invade Pakistan after the Monsoon season. In Pakistan, Bhutto was now set to become the PM and was acting as the foreign Minister also. But both the army leadership led by Yahya and Bhutto failed to see the Indian preparations.

4. In November 1971, nearly half a million Indian army attacked from all sides into East Pakistan. Pak Army fought gallantly (see interview of General Manekshaw) but was outnumbered and outgunned almost 1:20 or at place 1:50. Only 45 lightly armed thousand Pakistani troops were fighting against nearly half a million Indian troops and quarter a million Mukti terrorists. (read stories of battle of Hilli and Kamalpur).

5. In West Pakistan, the corrupt leadership of Yahya Khan started the military operations so late that they failed to impact the battle situation on ground in East. Between November 22 1971 to December 16th 1971, the small and tired Pakistan Army in East Pakistan was totally surrounded, isolated, without air support, without supplies and fighting on a land which was already under Indian occupation. Indians could not defeat the army garrisons at any place but then used their air support to land directly around Dhaka, bypassing the defending Pak Army. General Niazi, the commander of the Easter Command was left with no option but to accept the surrender terms. Before that, Poland had moved a resolution in UN on December 12 to demand a cease fire and withdrawal of Pak Army. If that resolution was adopted, Pakistan army would not have to face the humiliation of surrender but Bhutto tore that resolution and the last opportunity for a political solution was lost. (Google Polish resolution, UN, 1971, Bhutto).

6. From march 1971 to December 1971, Pakistan army in East Pakistan had regained East Pakistan from Muktis and was putting up a brave fight against Indians to allow the political and military leadership in West Pakistan to find a political solution. But those many precious months were also wasted by General Yahya and Bhutto.

7. Once the news of fall of Dhaka reached West Pakistan, the nation went into a state of rage. Bhutto was out of the country and was saved but the officers of the army and the people rebelled against the top leadership and Yahya had to resign, handing over power to Bhutto as the entire leadership of the army was arrested.

Today, we face the same crisis. The leadership is treacherous and corrupt and Indians have created multiple Mukti Bahinis from Khyber to Karachi. Memo scandal have been caught where leaders have been found to be conspiring to destroy Pak Army. The whole country is now under a state of war and threat of civil war is real. Traitors are known but still army is being forced to conduct elections just as they did in 1970. Indian Cold Start military doctrine is deployed and waiting to roll into Pakistan once anarchy starts in Pakistan after the elections. Army is already fighting multiple insurgencies in the country and now is being asked to hold elections as well. This is exact repeat of 1971. We fear exact result of 1971.

It is our duty to raise the alarm which was NOT raised in 1971. We must learn from history or be condemned to repeat it. This is the law of nature.

When traitors rule and take part in fake democracy and political parties have armed wings and army comes under pressure and help the traitors to become rulers, then these tragedies become inevitable. Today, we have a choice. Tomorrow, the circumstances would decide our destiny.


For the last 41 years, the Indian and RAW funded snakes in media like Hamid Mir have been barking that Pakistan Army committed the genocide of Bengali Muslims in East Pakistan. The Muslims of Bangladesh still believe these lies as all history was written by Indian army and RAW who had taken over all records of history after fall of Dhaka in 1971. Now after decades, Bengali leaders are coming forwards to expose the lies which have been spread for the last 4 decades. It is time that Muslims of Bangladesh also realize that how Indians and Soviets made a total fool of them and used their leaders to break away from Pakistan. The horrendous atrocities were indeed committed but NOT by Pak army but by the Mukti Bahini, as recorded in Blood and Tears.

The total strength of Pak army was 40,000 in East Pakistan. Total number of prisoners of war were 92,000 which included thousands of Pakistan government officials, civilians, pro-Pakistan citizens and post offices railways and PIA officers and staff. It is NOT humanly possible to commit that levels of genocide as being accused on Pakistan Army. Now even the finest of Bengali leaders are coming forward to expose the lies. Their Zameer is hurting them now. They have betrayed the Ummat-e-Rasul (sm) and now when death is staring them in the face, they want to clean their conscious. Read this and know how the snakes in media and politics lied to you.

Almost 41 years ago, today, on December 9th 1971, Pakistan was fighting a desperate war of survival against an overwhelmingly powerful alliance of India-Soviets, Mukti Bahini traitors and the CIA to break Pakistan. We indeed suffered heavily and lost East Pakistan but there were also more heroic deeds of courage, valor and sacrifice and we inflicted most severe damage to the much superior Indian forces also. Even in desperate times, a brave commander and its vision can turn the tide in favor of the nation. Here, we bring to you a forgotten piece of history — full of romance, adventure and high intensity action in the deep seas.

In the coming days, we will expose all the players and reality of the 1971 tragedy, InshAllah. Know this history which the media will never tell you.


Iftikhar Chaudhry sahib, today you have passed a judgement against ISI’s role in politics. Let us ask you few questions. Is it OK for foreign secret services to pay money to Pakistani politicians and political parties??? Is it OK for foreign secret services to fix elections in Pakistan?? Is it OK for political parties in Pakistan to create terrorist gangs??? Is it OK for political parties in Pakistan to wage a war against Pakistan? If all this is happening in Pakistani politics, then why are you blocking ISI from keeping a check on Pakistani political parties???

1. Agartala sazish proved that Awami National Party took money from Indian RAW for a war against Pakistan and created Mukti Bahini. East Pakistan was broken because of that Indian sazish where the judiciary refused to punish the traitors and blocked ISI’s attempt to punish them. All cases were withdrawn against traitor politicians.

2. Al-Zulfiqar terrorist organization was created by Peoples Party and sons of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto for war against Pakistan after funding from India, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. PPP had a terrorist wing. Are you aware of this??? Sure you are.

3. Baluchistan Liberation Army was created by separatists Baloch politicians in 70’s and traitors like Najam Sethi were part of Hyderabad Conspiracy trial for waging a war against Pakistan through foreign funding. All were forgiven and cases withdrawn against them, even today. why????

4. Awami National Party of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan has been waging a war against Pakistan for 65 years through Soviet and Indian funding. Bhutto had formed treason against them too.

5. Today, even in the Senate elections, billions of Rupees have been spent by political parties and their foreign backers to fix the elections for traitors. It is all documented and known to the world and the SC.

6. Isn’t this a fact that USAID and US embassy is heavily involved in all political deals in Pakistan these days???? Wiki Leaks exposed that even Fazal-ur Rehman had asked the US embassy to make him the PM!!

So, when foreign powers are heavily funding political parties for war against Pakistan, why should ISI be forced to keep out of keeping a check on politicians??? Are you giving a free hand to the enemies to buy and sell the politicians for war against Pakistan? Can the SC guarantee that no foreign funding or influence would come from CIA or RAW on Pakistani politics ??? If the SC cannot give this guarantee and the history and facts prove that all hostile powers are heavily influencing Pakistani politics, then isn’t this destroying the country by blocking our own army and ISI ???????

May Allah deal with you as He feel fit. We will curse you in every dua we make. Aulia Allah were already doing that Bad-Dua. Now we know why. Astaghfirullah!!!!

Marvi Sermed, Imtiaz Alam, Asma Jahangir and Najam Sethi and the SAFMA are the snakes who now want to sell our honour to Hindus once again and would never talk of the brutal conspiracies of 1971 and the filthy role of Indians in breaking up Pakistan.

Read this article by Orya sahib and see what the former Mukti Bahini thinks of their dirty role in East Pakistan! Try to find the book mentioned in the article. In the end, Orya sahib mentions the awara media of Pakistan which will never discuss this aspect of Indian role in East Pakistan.

Today, senate has been sold through Indian money. Traitors, terrorists and seperatists have entered the Senate and would also do the same in general elections if they take place. Before this, the snakes want the role of ISI to be blocked so that RAW and CIA can do what they did in East Pakistan. By Allah, we know our enemies and this time, we will fight back!

The total strength of military was 34,000 (including the bangali defectors?) 10,000 police and LEA

@asad71 your opinion sir.

 

[Pakistani shaheens]

You still think playing this muslim v/s hindu card will give you credibility?

And "To please hindu gods"? Really? Is it that difficult to spot the difference between reportage and creative fiction?

It is not us, but its you guys who are playing this bogus card of 1971 over and over again to keep bangladeshis in your influence, we all know its not possible for an army which is fighting its rival country and facing civil war at a time to commit this atrocity of high scale, you guys are just beating this horse over and over again for an hope to divert world attention from what you guys have been doing in Kashmir and in other parts of your country where people are seeking independence.

 

[Levina]

Time to move on.

Unfortunately your country and mine 're stuck in time....

Pray tell me; how can a Diplomat in a country ravaged by Civil War have the luxury of going on a fact-finding mission to piece together what really happened ?

And barring conjecture; where exactly are the facts ?

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