1971 War
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After the 1971 Ceasefire: The Officers Who Wrote to Yahya
Reproduces a Pakistani officer’s account of the weeks after the 1971 ceasefire, including a reported letter from officers of 6 Armoured Division asking President Yahya to resign, and the subsequent…
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Atlas of the 1971 War
Reproduces the text of John H. Gill’s An Atlas of the 1971 India-Pakistan War, with its contents and preface, which calls the war the most important conflict between the two…
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Interview with a Mujahid: Maj Gen Tajammal Hussain Malik
An interview Major Amin conducted in 2001 with the late Maj Gen Tajammal Hussain Malik, a devout officer who planned to assassinate Zia, posted with a long introduction as a…
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Book Review: Blood Over Different Shades of Green: East Pakistan 1971 History Revisited
Hamid Hussain reviews Ikram Sehgal and Bettina Robotka’s Blood Over Different Shades of Green, praising a candid account by an army officer of mixed Punjabi and Bengali parentage, and noting…
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Are all Arabs “honorary” Muslims?
Starting from whether Pakistanis treat all Arabs as honorary Muslims, the author argues that South Asian identities split along a Hindi-Urdu civilisational fault line, citing the choices made by Bengalis…
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1971, Majlis & Vande Mataram
Zach recounts arguing ‘Team Pak’ in a Cambridge debate on 1971, saying the case turned on Indian interference rather than Bangladeshi independence. He then weighs in on the Majlis logo…
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Cambridge Union Debate on 1971 War
A short note on the relaunch of the Cambridge Majlis after nearly thirty years, with a debate on the 1971 war, and a link on how its members helped end…
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How Pakistan Got Divided
Major Amin reviews General Rao Farman Ali’s How Pakistan Got Divided and finds it another disappointing book that whitewashes the real causes of 1971. He argues ethnicity was decisive, tracing…
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How Bengalis rejected “genetic improvement”
Quotes an article on how Bangladesh made abortion safer for Rohingya rape victims, notes its figures on sexual violence in 1971, and adds a personal remark about his parents’ friendly…
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A Historic Picture (and some reminiscences about 1971 BD War)
Dr Hamid Hussain explains a photograph of General Sam Manekshaw flying to Pakistan after the 1971 war with two Pakistani Air Force prisoners of war, gives the stories of the…
