Another Fall of Dhaka (KPK) ? Suhail Warraich Column
The situation of today's conflict seems to me to be similar to the events of 1971 and fall of Dhaka.
Writer: Suhail Warraich
May God grant that my guess, whisper and analysis are 100% wrong, but what can I do, the situation of today’s conflict seems to me to be similar to the events of 1971 and fall of Dhaka.
Then the fight of the institutions, the clash of personalities and instead of consciousness, work was done with enthusiasm and eventually fall of Dhaka happened. Even today there is a similar crisis, the characters are the same, but their names have changed.
Even then everyone’s mistakes had given rise to the tragedy of East Pakistan, today everyone’s mistakes should not push the country towards any new tragedy. The comparison of the situation then and today is very interesting and instructive.
Even in 1971, the biggest problem was how to stop Sheikh Mujeeb? Most of the politicians and people of West Pakistan at that time thought that if Sheikh Mujib came, he would weaken or break the country by following six points.
Today’s problem is almost the same. PMLN and PPP believe that if Imran Khan comes, the country will be destroyed economically and governance will end.
At that time an attempt was made to defeat Sheikh Mujeeb in the election but he was successful in East Pakistan, this time Imran Khan’s party swept even though there was an attempt to defeat him.
If at that time Sheikh Mujeeb and Pak Establishment were face to face, today Imran Khan and Establishment are competing with each other.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Jamaat-e-Islami were among those who supported Establishment at that time, and Asif Ali Zardari and PMLN are among those who supported Establishment today. Nawaz Sharif. Even earlier, the left-wing People’s Party and the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami were with Establishment in the “national interest” and today the liberal People’s Party and the right-wing old-minded PML-N are with Establishment.
Yesterday Sheikh Mujeeb had the armed support of the Mukti Bahini and used to attack the Pakistan Army to harm it, today Social media is Mukti Bahini where people abuse Generals like bullets.
In the past, just as India and other countries had given moral and financial support to Sheikh Mujib, today Imran’s support is coming from overseas. The decision-makers of politics are also suffering from chaos, although they have been reconciled, but unity of thought is not visible yet.
It is said that the inspiration of Sheikh Mujeeb and the Awami League were the intellectuals there, today the new inspiration of the supporters of Imran Khan is the decisions of the judiciary.