Victory Day or Surrender day, new generation of Pakistanis just know heinous crime of Peshawar school attack which left 141 dead on 16th December 2014.
The brutal attack is now dominating the Pakistani media and there is no mention of what happened or very little any one mention anything regarding East Pakistan become Bangladesh on 16th December 1971.
I am not here to give history lecture to readers but our readers should know that we are hiding and deliberately changing the history of our beloved nation. As stated by Tahir Mehdi that Most Pakistanis feel uneasy coming to terms with the reality that is Bangladesh. They hide themselves behind a shoddy narrative of 1971, and neatly categorise the whole thing as a ‘conspiracy’. It might well have been one. But who conspired against whom and when? What were the Bengalis up to? And how did they reach breaking point? Read here
The situation hasn’t change, the military, politician and mullah establishment again making same mistake and haven’t learnt from the past. We still haven’t told the world that it was a Bengali mutiny, a genocide of Bengali or Pakistan Army surrender.
We should have courage to state the truth, even if it is against the Army, politician or against the (traitor?) Bengali. I am hoping that we learn from our mistakes and make the fall of Dhaka, the rise of a better Pakistan.
