The Vacuum created by the British was filled up readily by the American Pakistan and the USSR in India. It must be admitted that Pakistan came into existence because the elite and the neo-elite amongst the Muslims succeeded in marshalling the Muslim masses behind the demand for an Independent Pakistan based on their Poverty and and underdevelopment, by passed as they were, by the modernizing influence which the British injected into this sub-continent Inspite of themselves. No wonder, the elite and the neo-elite having had little share in the national struggle for independence of India, got busy appropriating the major share of the fruit of independence for themselves and their kin. At the critical moment, after the death of jinnah and liaqat Ali the Army came in as the new custodian of power in Pakistan supported by the capitalist business putting the so-called representatives of people in cold-storage. The deprived political representatives dominantly from West Pakistan found new avenues for self-expression in the exploitation of the major share of the loaves and fishes of office whether to the Army or the administration and the butter and cream which flowed from the produce of the agriculturally rich territory to the business interests. Even a blind person could see that religion can not be a binding mortar for a nation today or how else can we explain the continuing wars between Christian nations in Europe and Muslim nations in the Middle East?
Bangladesh is a case apart because it has a people who are totally different whether in ethnology, language, tradition, culture or ecology from those that inhabit West Pakistan separated by a thousand miles from East Pakistan. The music and literature loving people of Bangladesh raised their banner of revolt for power to mould their own destiny according to their will. Meanwhile demands for self rule rather than Army rule also began to find expression in a chorus in West Pakistan it self. Yahya khan agreed to constitution making in favor of ‘power to the people’. His advisers were obviously out of touch totally with what was going on in the mind of the people whether in West Pakistan or in erstwhile East Pakistan. Totally contrary to the calculation of the ruling group, the elections threw up the Awami League headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the unquestioned major party in Pakistan as a whole and with a virtual monopoly in the State legislature. The Sheikh acted the true Ganhian and made co-existence with India the neighbor as the background of his six-point programme on which he won the Army or in Industries and Commerce which ruled over the people of Pakistan from West Punjab. Yahya Khan acted the tool of destiny in the inevitable dismemberment of the unnatural state of Pakistan.
The world as it stands today has three major powers- the U. S., USSR and Mainland China. These three powers do not want a fourth power to raise its head in the world. The smaller powers, whether in Europe or elsewhere would dread the prospect of a fourth power equally. The only way India could be prevented from occupying the position which belongs to her by right based on her massive population, her wealth above and below the earth she occupies; is to have a powerful Pakistan checkmating this potential colossus. The shock of the world, whether of the big brothers or the middle or miner ones over the impending disintegration of Pakistan heralded by Yahya Khan and his associates should be seen on this perspective as also the continuance of support through Military
