December 16, 1971: Why don't we learn from our mistakes?

The day of the fall of Dhaka is the darkest day in the history of Pakistan and a sore wound that may never heal. Undoubtedly, the sun of this day appears giving us a sense of shame and regret and seems to urge us to learn lessons from history. They are the same as they were before, the only difference is that "democracy" is used more in this period than in the previous period. And after hearing the words that the enemy country had a "big hand" behind this tragedy. But that enemy is still the same today, but is developing further. Then the Hamudur Rahman Commission was also formed in this regard, which also produced a report containing more than 200 pages, but it was kept as a "national secret". Concerned. Those parts are not worth publishing here, because it also mentions colorful nights, and Mahfil Shabab. But in this report, court martial was recommended for 6 generals including General Yahya Khan, General Abdul Hameed, Lt General SGMM Pirzada, Major General Umar, Lt General Gul Hasan and General Matha, the report said. These military officers should be court-martialled for their criminal negligence in the performance of their duties on both the East and West Pakistan fronts. Some recommendations were also presented for But they have not been implemented till date.

Hence, the Mehmoodur Rahman Commission report says that when the army of any country is accused of being involved in politics, it is no longer able to fight. And this is also the lesson of "Fall of Dhaka". The report also tells us that politicians should never act as facilitators at such stages, because when facilitators are available, then the decision-makers gain influence. But the facilitators get temporary relief, but their future is in jeopardy, if you are not sure, look at the tragedy of 1971. Jamaat-e-Islami

included many Biharis from East Pakistan. But does anyone know what happened to them later? History is witness that they have been made a lesson in Bangladesh, they are still kept in refugee camps, many leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami have been hanged, and many leaders are still behind bars. ,, But we did nothing for them, we neither brought them to Pakistan nor raised our voice for them. Similarly, Bhutto, who rescued prisoners of war and brought them back to West Pakistan, was later hanged on the gallows.

It is a pity that we do not learn from our mistakes, nor do we admit mistakes, if we are able to, we will surely progress. Because the country that has learned from its mistakes has progressed, and the one that has covered up its mistakes is lost in dark paths. And then this thing has also become clear to us like daylight that instead of admitting our mistake, instead of admitting our mistake, we bring arrogance in our voices. That is, we are sorry to say today that the arrogance of our decision-makers is clearly visible in their faces and tongues. Due to this arrogance, we wasted the great Bengali leaders like Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, Khwaja Nazimuddin, MM Alam and were unable to use them in their proper place. It was allowed, then the 1970 elections were held, the Awami League won the majority, but we did not recognize the Awami League at any level due to arrogance, most of the seats belonged to the Awami League, but we did not give them power. And when they started demonstrations to demand power, we sent Tikka Khan there, but I will say that arrogance was visible even then, and arrogance is visible even today. If you are not sure, you can see for yourself, how the cases of civilians have also been sent to "special courts". Well, let's come back to the topic and reflect on the pages of history that today, December 16, reminds us that when this tragedy happened, the next day, the power sharing had started. In this tragedy. The establishment was guilty in its place, the politicians in their place. Another surprising thing was that after this tragedy, not only the power was shared, but instead of shedding tears over the collapse of East Pakistan on the morning of December 17, the civil and military establishment. Everyone was checking their numbers on the seniority list as the Bengali officers left. This was the lesson that the rulers of power and power had learned after the shameful defeat and tragedy of East Pakistan at Platon Ground!

 Readers! A nation is one that moves forward by correcting its mistakes instead of others and tries to correct the mistakes made in the past. It is a pity that the mistakes we made at that time are still important today. Making mistakes. At that time, we not only sacked former Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin, who belonged to Bengal, but also forced him to lead a life of servitude. , we made him the Prime Minister and gave him the title of "traitor" and had him killed in 1962. It is just like taking power from an elected government and handing it over to the same politicians who are accused of corruption of billions of rupees. are And the one from whom the power was taken, his character is being portrayed so brazenly that he will definitely become a "rebel" from Pakistan if not today.

Therefore, I will say once again that if we admit our mistakes, what is the point in it? After the Second World War, Japan admitted its mistake, Germany also admitted its mistake, both have become great powers today. India has learned from its mistakes, it is one of the top ten economies in the world today, Bangladesh, which gained independence from us, is much better than us. This is because there is no arrogance in their tone, we have been beaten everywhere, we have a real communication gap with them. And then I think breaking the constitution of 1956 was the reason for the split of Pakistan, although Sheikh Mujibur Rahman also kept talking about the restoration of the constitution of 1956 in his speeches. Even today, the constitution of 1973 is under threat every moment, sometimes someone breaks it and imposes emergency, someone makes arbitrary changes in it and promotes the theory of necessity.

However, 52 years have passed since East Pakistan became Bangladesh, but our mourning, chest beating and wailing continues. Half a century has passed but we are still not ready to admit that the inhumane treatment of the Bengali people by our political and military leadership was the logical outcome of the creation of Bangladesh. We are the freedom of Bangladesh. Instead of recognizing it, they call it a conspiracy and aggression by India. We defend the military operation in Bangladesh with various pretexts and describe the massacre of Bengalis as an exaggeration. And considers independence as doubtful and calls it a 'colony' of India. This is the reason why we still have no research work on 'How East Pakistan became Bangladesh' and what material we get about it. They are mostly written by the establishment. As far as the civilian contribution is concerned, it is negligible. Former generals have seen and explained how East Pakistan became Bangladesh from a military point of view. He has limited himself to describing the issue in the context of "enemy, treachery, shortage of weapons, incompetence of military leadership and victory and defeat".

Long story short, the tragedy of East Pakistan teaches us to respect each other's mandate. It is hoped that on this day we should ensure that the public mandate is respected, if the largest party in the country is talking about holding elections, to bring political stability to the ruling parties. Regarding the new election, all political parties should be brought to a table so that our country can climb the ladder of development like other developed countries. Otherwise, by the will of God, we will be more disgraced and will continue to attack each other! May Allah be the supporter of this country!