20th December, 1971 : Pakistan president (Gen) Yahya Khan resigns

[MenInG]

And so ends a horrible phase of one chapter of military rule.

This was to be followed by another 'hope' of democracy under Bhutto. An officer called Zia-ul-Haq is rising through the ranks in the meantime....

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Military rule has been cancerous for us

 

[MenInG]

Yahya Khan, amongst all military rulers was probably the vilest! but then I am judging a dead man which isnt always right!

 

[Markhor]

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Drunkard Yahya should've allowed the negotiations to continue between Bhutto and Mujib instead of launching a disasterous operation. The negotiations were deadlocked but they were never officially ended by the two parties, it was Yahya's announcement of an operation that ended it. Mujib even proposed a Confederation of Pakistan as late as March 1971 so secession was not an inevitability.

But Yahya and the hawks in the NSC were simply not prepared to transfer power to a regional party like Awami League and let them draft the Constitution, despite winning the 1970 election. It is he who shares the biggest responsibility in breaking up the country.

 

[Pakistanian]

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Drunkard Yahya should've allowed the negotiations to continue between Bhutto and Mujib instead of launching a disasterous operation. The negotiations were deadlocked but they were never officially ended by the two parties, it was Yahya's announcement of an operation that ended it. Mujib even proposed a Confederation of Pakistan as late as March 1971 so secession was not an inevitability.

But Yahya and the hawks in the NSC were simply not prepared to transfer power to a regional party like Awami League and let them draft the Constitution, despite winning the 1970 election. It is he who shares the biggest responsibility in breaking up the country.

Meh i don't think a confederation would have worked out either. East and West Pakistan was just an unnatrual union, there's no other precedent of a country split into 2 parts a thousand miles from each other.