Untold Facts

Pakistan Phobia and Bashing after 40 Years!

A few vocal among a limited circle but covered sufficiently in media in Dhaka remain unimpressed though in overwhelmingly majority people’s psyche what I see is the Pakistan phobia and bashing. The pitch goes high at times in obvious information gaps of and propaganda galore around, particularly among those new progeny of around forty years or below that have been on and on trumpeted during the last 40 years. Lately when such phobia is in the air bashing Pakistan in half truths made here in Dhaka by the successors of NEHRU AIDED PARTY their real present master of Delhi has begged to Riadh for Pakistan’s kindness! Monmohon Singh, the Indian Prime Minister, visiting Riadh for three days lately has literally begged to Saudi Arabia, as reports of the Times of India on the 28th February 2010 and BBC Bengali News in the morning of 1st March (Dhaka time), etc. for Saudi close friend Pakistan to be kind to India to ‘act decisively against terrorism’.

Pakistan is not a big but much smaller country than India in all respects from land area to population size to economy and in terms of anything that matters except possibly the nuclear deterrent. In addition, Pakistan has her own internal security problems of terrorism engineered by the Indian intelligence operatives, the R&AW and of the Israeli MOSSAD. Even so, she has the strength of being Muslim nation as the Saudis are holding guardianship of the two Muslim holy places and so spiritual love and allegiance that all in composite spirit have given the biggest source of power and deep relations with all Muslim countries, with Saudi Arabia since the day one in 1947, in particular.
In 2010 Bangladesh and Pakistan are two sovereign countries on their own rights, No matter the countries remained as one before 1971 in federal structure distanced geographically one thousand miles for only 23/24 years until the 1971 war between in the last century, and once mutual recognitions accorded in 1974 and acrimonies sorted out at the topmost level through ‘forgive and forget’, Bangladesh as a Muslim majority country owes love and mutual respect with all Muslim countries. People of Bangladesh have little grievances against Pakistan but a lot with India in their random border killings, difficulties made in enclaves, land boundary unsettled, maritime boundary pending demarcation for decades, South Talpatti of Bangladesh in adverse possession of India, unusually excess and unnatural water withdrawal at upstream by India in all major rivers, etc just as Pakistan has with India, the Jammu and Kashmir issue outstanding for over six decades now, and recent excess water withdrawal by India at the up streams of the common rivers.

India’s complain is that Pakistan based ‘terrorists’ create terror attacks in India. Delhi further means that ‘terrorists’ include those in freedom struggle of Jammu and Kashmir, as well. Taken this blame game as it appears, can’t any sensible person raise the question that who are the sponsors of the Maoists and Naxals now creating havoc up in the areas north of West Bengal down in the south to Andhra in 20 provinces- 220 districts-with money, arms and logistics? Are the ULFAs, BODOs, MIZOs of the Indian North East all sponsored by Pakistan? All these groups claim that they are not terrorists but genuine freedom fighters just as the people of Jammu and Kashmir are. The issue of Jammu and Kashmir is much more genuine and legal as the case has been pending at the UN since 1948. But India calls the Jammu and Kashmir freedom fighters as ‘terrorists’ and arrogantly blames Pakistan for sponsoring them. The known brand of the NEHRU men here in Dhaka with some labels and little or no followers here while as ever ready for bashing Pakistan, they were never seen or heard supporting the cause of the Kashmiris freedom struggle. The issue is important and crucial for the sovereignty of Bangladesh for the fact that the basic issue of independence of Bangladesh and Jamuu & Kashmir rests on the same premise, that is, the 1947 partition of British India. Not only this. Pakistan was more of the creation of the people of Bangladesh than of the people who constitute now the State of Pakistan. My father and grand father, I remember at my age of nine as a primary school going student of rural village in Rangpur district, voted with all enthusiasm in the 1946 historic general election for the founding of Pakistan. Unfortunately there had been no such referendum in 1970 election that ended in war, blood and misery of thousands of people though ended up in independence of Bangladesh in the land and soil of what in 1947 had come to be known as East Pakistan. Had there been no East Pakistan in 1947, there would have been no question of independent Bangladesh. Our fate would then have remained as Nehru had vision of the second class citizens of India (so long 2.4% reservation for Muslims in jobs raised recently to 10% for the 25% West Bengal Muslims, being seriously objected to by the majority people there) and at best with few positions of some clerks and peons for us in the Calcutta MAHAKARON just as Sheikh Mujib’s foster father Sheikh Lutfar Rahman had been a MOHRAR or record keeper there in early 1920s under lawyer Chandi Das ( See, Jiban Smriti, Dhaka, 2006, P.643).

There are few among those Pakistan bashers who constantly pray for the destruction of Pakistan. One I knew and died some years ago who would always cram for liquidation of Pakistan from the world map so much so that he did not wish to die until and unless Pakistan was liquidated from the map of the world as an unit independent country. But he had no clear answer to the question if once Pakistan would be liquidated from the world map, what rationale would be left for independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh except in merger and integration into the mother INDIA or into the AKHANDA BHARAT of Kautilya-Chanakya not of independent Seraj ud Dawlah or of Isa Khan, Shamsuddin Elias Shah, to name a few, much less of Ikhtiaruddin.

Pakistan bashing by any Bangladeshi only helps India and Indian hegemony hardly in the interest of free Bangladesh. But those who also dream for the ‘Indian Doctrine’ to triumph here is, albeit, their free wish, but people at large hardly share the evil idea of full Indianisation (See, Balraj Modhak, Indianization, Delhi), much less lost completely in the AKHAND BHARAT but live with dignity upholding freedom, liberty and national sovereignty in even the moth-eaten geographical area earned in 1947 through popular votes for East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

Author: B K Din