brothers and sisters, let's simmer down a bit, shall we? there's no need to hold a grudge, let's forgive and forget.
honestly, you guyz speak like east pakistan would have remained with us if it wasn't our treatment or indian influence. Truth is, east pakistan was doomed from the start. How can a country maintain itself when it's split up in two with a thousand mile distance?
We shouldn't have named east pakistan, pakistan. they should have been given a name that reflects the only ethnicity there, bengali's. west pakistan took care of punjabis, afghanis, kashmiris, sindhis, baluchis, etc. east pakistan covered a much larger population consisting of only bengalies. For those of you who don't understand what i'm trying to get at here, you only need to read up on chaudhry ali rehmat's ideas.
i don't take the '71 war seriously, I mean the entire bengali population was against the pak army. it's not like we even stood a fighting chance. even if we had east pakistan, it would have been much difficult to maintain in time of war. besides, after the '71 war, we embarked on our nuclear program.
we gained something that makes a huge difference on the world stage. Look at our military, standard of life, economy, potential growth for economy, etc. Compare that to bangladesh, they can't even handle themselves. better yet, they've backstabbed the indians, much to our pleasure.
as soon as bangladesh becomes independent, mujib(****) is shot. better yet, a former PA army officer takes over. Do you see why we're better off, it's best if we forget and move on. My idea on what pakistan should have been will remain the same, we should have formed a confederation and eventually merge with afghanistan.