Pakistan’s current crisis and India’s train of thought
After the 1970 general elections, Indira Gandhi exploited the civil war in East Pakistan to dismember and, according to the Indian defence analyst K. Subhramanyam "Kick Pakistan out of South East Asia". No one denies that Mujib and his Awami League supporters played into India’s hands. The separatist tendency in East Pakistan found open expression and was translated by the Bengali intelligentsia into a popular movement, abetted strongly by India. That the West Pakistani centers of power, particularly the Punjabi and Sindh feudal class, had also gravitated towards separating the two wings, is generally ignored. Some West Pakistani politicians, particularly the Punjabi feudal Mumtaz Daultana, advertently or inadvertently glorified Mujib and refused to attend Ayub Khan's Roundtable conference unless Mujib, imprisoned on treason charges in the Agartala conspiracy, was released from prison. Half a century later Mujib's daughter Hasina Wajid declared...