Message of 16 December |
Whenever the month of December arrives, and the sixteenth day of this month comes around, it reminds us that Pakistan’s eastern wing was separated from us due to India’s conspiracies and the negligence of some of our own people. At the same time, this very date, 16 December, also marks the APS tragedy, in which innocent children were martyred in the name of Islam. On 16 December 1971, when the eastern wing, or East Pakistan, was torn away from us, the primary role was played by our enemy country, India. India attacked the Two-Nation Theory, and everyone remembers Indira Gandhi’s famous statement in which she claimed that “today we have drowned the Two-Nation Theory in the Ganges.” But Indira Gandhi forgot that ideologies do not end with the separation or division of countries. The Two-Nation Theory is still a part of the faith of Pakistan’s 250 million people, and they are protecting it with heart and soul.
As far as the separation of East Pakistan is concerned, local politicians there played an important role. By tempting and misleading them, India incited them against Pakistan. And remember, the separation of East Pakistan was not India’s victory but rather its failure, because India had always desired to merge East Bengal into West Bengal. However, this conspiracy failed, and an independent........