East Pakistan, the eastern wing of the country, died on 16 December 1971 at the Paltan Maidan in Dacca ( now spelled Dhaka). On its debris emerged a new country, Bangladesh, as a result of a big conspiracy and naked aggression by India in the garb of the Mukti Bahini, a force patronized by the neighbouring country through Shaikh Mujibur Rehman.
It was on this day, perhaps the darkest day in the history of Pakistan so far and also for...