Comments by "agon noga" (@agonnoga6100) on "Why’s latest election being called Pak army’s 1970 moment? Praveen Swami on how 1970 broke Pakistan" video.

  1. @Praveen Swami What you have mentioned is the popular narrative wrt 1971. Fact is roots of 1971 goes back to 1940 Lahore resolution for the creation of Pakistan on the following lines: "That geographically contiguous units are demarcated regions which should be constituted, with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary that the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in the North Western and Eastern Zones of (British) India should be grouped to constitute ‘independent states’ in which the constituent units should be autonomous and sovereign." According to the Lahore resolution penned by a Khan and read out by a Bengali Fazlul Haq Pakistan was supposed to be a group of autonomous and sovereign independent states and not one nation state. The 1970 election was fought in East Pakistan on the basis of Mujibur's 6 points which basically meant 2 nations under one flag. The Pathan generals accepted this plan and therefore allowed the 1970 election with the demand for implementation of the 6 points. After Mujib won majority of the seats his greatest opposition didn't come from the Pathan and Punjabi dominated Pak military but by Sindhi Bhutto and the Mohajirs as there was a sizable Mohajir population in East Pakistan. Implementation of the 6 points would lead to Bhutto becoming the PM of West Pakistan while Mujib would be the PM of East Pakistan. So it's utter nonsense to say Bhutto wanted to be PM of Pakistan and therefore opposed Mujib. Fact is, condition of Sindh in Pakistan is not very different from that of East Pakistan in Pakistan. Both are economically strong regions with little to no presence in the Pakistan military and the government in Islamabad. Autonomy of East Pakistan as per 6 points would lead to entire burden of Pakistan with its humongous military with next to zero Sindhis falling on Sindh. Even today, without Sindh, Pakistan cannot exist.
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