Pakistan’s Tragic 75 Years of Independence, 70 Years of Pakistan, A Close Ally of the West, Defending Their Interests

  

Pakistan’s Tragic 75 Years of Independence, 70 Years of Pakistan, A Close Ally of the West, Defending Their Interests

Mujeeb Khan   

 

President John F Kennedy, President General Ayub Khan, Vice President London B Johnson

President Reagan, President General Zia ul Huq

President George W Bush, President General Pervez Musharraf

  In the 75 years of the establishment of Pakistan, 35 years of military rules, and 40 years of political party governments, the world says you did not get good leaders, and religion ruined you. It is a beautiful country; people are very hardworking. But the leadership of the country was bad. Those who were good leaders were killed or their fate made a terrible example. Intrigues and conspiracies are extremely easy in this country. Founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah died under suspicious circumstances. In the early years of independence, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated. Those who came to power after him did not last long and their rule ended soon.

 The army came to power after 11 years of establishment in Pakistan. The first martial law was imposed in Pakistan. General Muhammed Ayub Khan was the first martial law administrator of Pakistan. The Constitution of the first Constituent Parliament of Pakistan was suspended. This is how the first decade of independence ended. The second decade of independence was under military rule. The British left Pakistan with powerful feudal lords and Kashmir in a conflict. Britain awarded feudal lords with Sir’s awards for their service and loyalty to Britain, major feudal families of Punjab lived in Britain, and they used to come to Pakistan to do politics. The people had fought for 50 years to end this feudal system. However, the feudal system is broken. But the owners of the sugarcane mills have replaced the feudal lords and now they live in Britain and come to Pakistan to do politics. These were the internal political battles of Pakistan. Pakistan fought three wars with India over the Kashmir dispute, 1948, 1965, and 1971. The last war was against India’s aggression in East Pakistan. India interfered in the internal affairs of Pakistan, helped the separatists in East Pakistan, and made them Bangladesh. If at that time the West had helped Pakistan in thwarting this aggression of India, Pakistan would not have developed a nuclear bomb. Although Pakistan was a close ally of the US during the Cold War, the US allowed India, a close ally of the Soviet Union, to dismember Pakistan, and nothing was done for Pakistan's security.

  General Ayub Khan’s military rule ended after ten years in 1968. The seeds of Bangladesh were sown during Ayyub Khan’s reign. General Ayub Khan handed over power to General Yahya Khan. Political parties of West and East Pakistan were demanding elections. Today, after 54 years, Pakistan has again entered this era, the army has given the power to General Shahbaz Sharif, and political parties are demanding elections. General Yahya Khan conducted the elections. After the tragedy of East Pakistan, the army handed over power to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Pakistan was in an incredibly challenging situation. The treasury was empty. Ninety thousand Pakistani soldiers were in Indian custody and India was threatening to prosecute them for war crimes. After the secession of East Pakistan, there was deep pessimism among the people about the future of Pakistan. All these tasks had to do by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in a brief time. In 1972 ninety thousand Pakistan soldiers came home from India. In 1973 The first democratic constitution of Pakistan was approved by the National Assembly, which was signed by all the political parties of the country, religious, secular, nationalist, and moderate. All the Islamic parties called it an Islamic constitution, and they signed it. Under it, they took an oath calling Allah the Present and the Watcher, we protect the Constitution. Governments formed in the provinces under this constitution. In NWF province, Wali Khan’s party formed the government with Mufti Mahmood’s party. In Baluchistan, Baloch leaders got the opportunity to form their own government for the first time. National Awami Party government was formed, Mir Ghous Bakhsh Bizenjo become the governor and Attaullah Mengal the Chief Minister. The constitution gave rights to all four provinces, and provincial governments were working well. Democracy was slowly taking roots. Then the CIA informed the government that the influence of the Soviet Union was increasing in Baluchistan. The Baloch Student Organization is dealing with the Soviet authorities. Prime Minister Bhutto asked Pakistan’s intelligence to follow up on this CIA report. Meanwhile, Shah Iran, who was a point man for the CIA in the region, came with his report that Soviet influence was increasing in Baluchistan, and threats to Iran’s security are increasing. Prime Minister Bhutto was forced to launch an immediate military operation. Governor’s rule came to Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s political downfall began from here. Baloch will go to the mountains war started between Pakistan Army and Baloch. The elections were to hold in 1978, but Prime Minister Bhutto had decided to hold the elections in 1977, a year earlier. This was his faith in democracy. The CIA was behind the alliance of opposition parties in the name of rigging the 1977 elections. Terrorism in Pakistan started by PNA when the body of a PPP worker was dragged on the street in Karachi. These leaders were responsible for bringing the military government to power for the third time in Pakistan. Before General Zia ul Haq, these leaders had broken the constitution, and they should have been hanged, these leaders took an oath to protect the constitution. Jamaat-e-Islami joined General Zia’s military government. In a country in which religious parties and their leaders will be corrupt and self-interested, Constitution and democracy will never succeed in this country.

  After the East Pakistan tragedy, the Afghan Jihad was a significant tragedy. The noose of this Jihad is still around the neck of Pakistan. It was an unnecessary jihad. What General Zia did to entertain the western countries. Although the Islamic states of Central Asia were dominated by the Soviet Union, and there Islam was not threatened by communist ideology. Afghanistan would have been like these Central Asian states, with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the border of Pakistan would have been protected. Then, the same way as Soviet troops came to Afghanistan, they went to the countries of Eastern Europe, but the western countries did not do Christian Jihad there. Instead, peace is given importance in Europe. The Western nations had enmity with the Islamic countries by giving importance to Jihad in an extremely strict Islamic Afghanistan. They are suffering this Jihad till today.