Editing East Pakistan (section)

==Legacy in Pakistan==
The trauma was extremely severe in [[Pakistan]] when the news of secession of East Pakistan as [[Bangladesh]] arrived—a psychological setback,<ref name="Haqqani2005"/> complete and humiliating defeat that shattered the prestige of the Pakistan Armed Forces.<ref name="Haqqani2005">{{cite book |last=Haqqani |first=Hussain |title=Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYppZ_dEjdIC&pg=PP1 |year=2005 |publisher=United Book Press |isbn=978-0-87003-214-1 |access-date=17 October 2020 |archive-date=7 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207173053/https://books.google.com/books?id=nYppZ_dEjdIC&pg=PP1 |url-status=live }}, Chapter 3, pp 87.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ali |first=Tariq |year=1983 |title=Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State |publisher=Penguin Books |pages=98–99 |isbn=0-14-02-2401-7 |quote=The defeat of the Pakistan army traumatized West Pakistan and considerably dented the prestige of the armed services ... The defeat suffered in Dacca and the break-up of the country traumatized the population from top to bottom.}}</ref> The governor and martial law administrator, Lieutenant-General [[Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi]], was defamed, his image was maligned and he was stripped of his honours.<ref name="Haqqani2005"/> The people of [[Pakistan]] could not come to terms with the magnitude of the defeat, and spontaneous demonstrations and mass protests erupted on the streets of major cities in (West) Pakistan.<ref name="Haqqani2005"/> General [[Yahya Khan]] surrendered powers to Nurul Amin of the [[Pakistan Muslim League]], the first and last [[Vice President of Pakistan|vice-president]] and [[prime minister of Pakistan]].<ref name="Haqqani2005"/>

Prime Minister Amin invited then-President [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] and the [[Pakistan Peoples Party]] to take control of [[Pakistan]] in a colourful ceremony where Bhutto gave a daring speech to the nation on [[Pakistan Television|national television]].<ref name="Haqqani2005"/> At the ceremony, Bhutto waved his fist in the air and pledged to his nation to never again allow the surrender of his country like what happened with East Pakistan. He launched and orchestrated the large-scale [[Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction|atomic bomb project]] in 1972.<ref name="The Atlantic">{{cite magazine |last=Langewiesche |first=William |date=November 2005 |title=The Wrath of Khan |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/11/the-wrath-of-khan/4333/3/ |magazine=The Atlantic |access-date=31 July 2016 |quote=Thirty-four years later it may seem obvious that the loss of Bangladesh was a blessing—but it is still not seen so today in Pakistan, and it was certainly not seen so at the time ... One month after the surrender of Pakistan's army in Bangladesh [Bhutto] called a secret meeting of about seventy Pakistani scientists ... He asked them for a nuclear bomb, and they responded enthusiastically. |archive-date=24 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824213019/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/11/the-wrath-of-khan/4333/3 |url-status=live }}</ref> In memorial of East Pakistan, the [[Bangladeshis in Pakistan|East-Pakistan diaspora]] in Pakistan established the East-Pakistan colony in Karachi, Sindh.<ref>{{cite news |last=Abbas Naqvi |date=17 December 2006 |title=Falling back |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\12\17\story_17-12-2006_pg12_3 |newspaper=Daily Times |location=Pakistan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805231755/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C12%5C17%5Cstory_17-12-2006_pg12_3 |archive-date=5 August 2011 |access-date=25 March 2012 |quote=Few people in Karachi's Chittagong Colony can forget Dec 16, 1971 – the Fall of Dhaka}}</ref> In accordance, the East-Pakistani diaspora also composed patriotic tributes to Pakistan after the war; songs such as "Sohni Dharti" (lit. "Beautiful Land") and "Jeevay, Jeevay Pakistan" (lit. "long-live, long-live Pakistan"), were composed by Bengali singer [[Shahnaz Rahmatullah]] in the 1970s and 1980s.

According to [[William Langewiesche]], writing for ''[[The Atlantic]]'', "it may seem obvious that the loss of Bangladesh was a blessing"<ref name="The Atlantic"/>—but it has never been seen that way in Pakistan.<ref name="The Atlantic"/> In the book ''Scoop! Inside Stories from the Partition to the Present'', Indian politician [[Kuldip Nayar]] opined, "Losing East Pakistan and Bhutto's releasing of Mujib did not mean anything to Pakistan's policy—as if there was no liberation war".<ref name="Nayar2006">{{cite book |last=Nayar |first=Kuldip |title=Scoop!: Inside Stories from Partition to the Present |date=1 October 2006 |publisher=HarperCollins |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-8172236434 |pages=213 pages |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/2006/december/bhuttonmujib.htm |access-date=25 March 2012 |archive-date=15 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515230956/http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/2006/december/bhuttonmujib.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Bhutto's policy, and even today the policy of [[Pakistan]], is that "she will continue to fight for the honour and integrity of [[Pakistan]]".<ref name="Nayar2006"/>