On March 26 this year, while Bangladesh will celebrate its 52nd anniversary of independence, policymakers in Pakistan are still continuing to mock liberation of Bangladesh from Pakistani occupation force’s evil clutches at the sacrifice of three million lives.

In 1971, the largest military surrender after WWII took place when 93,000 soldiers and officers of the Pakistan Army laid down their weapons in front of Bharatiya forces – liberating and giving birth to a new nation Bangladesh. The man who had kneeled-down in front of Bharatiya forces was Lieutenant General AAK Niazi, the man who had waged a nine-month war on the civilians of Bangladesh to a humiliating end for the Pakistan army and politicians.

In the early days of December 1971, Niazi felt weighed down by the prospect of defeat at the hands of Bharatiya military and Bengali Mukti Bahini forces. So much so that witnesses said Niazi “sobbed like a child” at a meeting with East Pakistan’s governor on December 7 according to a 1977 book called “Witness to Surrender” by Major Siddiq Salik, a public relations officer in the Pakistan army. At the time, Niazi began to seem agitated, withdrawn, and devastated.

Following his surrender, Niazi was flown off to Kolkata on December 20, 1971 as a prisoner of war.

But Pakistanis have not forgotten that humiliation.

If any Indian national will need to apply for a Pakistani visa, they will face two questions in the visa application form: Current nationality, and nationality at birth. Naturally every Indian will reply to both questions stating ‘Indian’. But these questions have been incorporated in Pakistani visa application form with the nefarious agenda of humiliating every citizen of Bangladesh who were born before 1971, as they have to mention current nationality as ‘Bangladeshi’ and nationality at birth as ‘Pakistani’. Meaning, Pakistanis want to remind every citizen of Bangladesh that once they were masters and Bengalis were their slaves.

In my opinion, Bangladesh authorities should strongly protest such a nefarious attitude of Pakistan and demand immediate deletion of this outrageous question from its visa application form.

Pakistan’s nefarious genocide on Hindus

Following the humiliating defeat in 1971, Pakistan Army and its cohorts within Islamist ruling elites chalked-out a new conspiracy against Bharat by giving birth to anarchist activity under the banner of ‘Khalistan’ and ‘Kashmir’. They have been consistently conspiring to create lawlessness inside Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir, despite the fact, Pakistan has been illegally occupying a part of Kashmir by giving it a false name of ‘Azad Kashmir’. For decades, Pakistan Army and its notorious spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) have been using Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoC) as a terrorist launch-pad and safe haven for jihadists.

It may be mentioned here that, during 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, members of Pakistani military and their local cohorts named ‘Razakar’, ‘Al Badr’ and ‘Al Shams’ killed three million people, while they have raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali girls and women in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape.

Most of the rape victims of Pakistani Army and its local collaborators were Hindus. Some of these Hindu girls and women dies in captivity or committed suicide while others fled to Bharat. Imams and Muslim religious leaders particularly leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and Muslim League as well as members of pro-Pakistan Peace Committee declared these girls and women “war booty”. Activists and leaders of Islamic parties are also accused to be involved in the rapes and abduction of Hindu girls and women.

The Pakistani elites believed that Hindus were behind the 1971 revolt against Pakistan and that as soon as there was a “solution to Hindu problem” by murdering Hindus and raping Hindu girls and females, the “conflict” would be resolved. For Pakistanis, the violence against Hindus was an “Islamic cause” and strategic policy. Muslim Pakistani men believed the “sacrifice” of Hindu girls and women were needed to “fix the national malaise”.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that Imams of mosques and mullahs, including madrassa teachers and members of Tablighi Jamaat supported the rapes by the Pakistan Army and even went further by issuing fatwas declaring Hindu girls and women war booty. A fatwa from West Pakistan during the war asserted that girls and women taken from Bengali Hindus could be considered war booty.

Afghan Taliban mocks Pakistan

On January 2, 2023, Afghanistan’s Taliban mocked Pakistan by sharing a picture of Pakistan’s military surrender to the Bharatiya forces and Bengali Mukti Bahini in 1971.

In a twitter post, Taliban leader Ahmad Yasir warned that Pakistan would face the same “shameful” fate if it launched a military assault on Afghanistan.

He also asked Islamabad to avoid “disgrace” following Pakistani Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah’s remark hinting at a possible military operation against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) hideouts in Afghanistan.

The picture shared by the Afghan Taliban leader from December 16, 1971 shows then-Pakistan army’s Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, chief martial law administrator of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), signing an Instrument of Surrender in Dhaka in the presence of senior officers of Bharatiya military officers and Mukti Bahini.