In #Corona times if we can shift from advertiser & State driven private (Socalled Free) media it will be a blessing in disguise. at july 5th naya daur media has arranged a debate that you can listen in a link below. It was co anchored by Raza Rumi & Murtaza solangi while Mr Ziauddin and Zubair Nazar participated as guests.
Background & few facts
After breakage of Pakistan we did not learn lessons. It was a reality that till December 1971, Yahya regime had full faith on London & Washington, many were waiting for the 6th fleet. Some people knew what was cooking yet many were daydreaming as usual. As State, we had already lost an opportunity in Sino-Indian war of early 1960s, thanks to US advice or order. In 1965 war, when US % former USSR had stopped arms cum assercise supplies to both quarreling countries, we had lost that war in Tashkent by signing an agreement without mentioning Kashmir Conflict. Who had pressurized us to omit Kashmir? is still a mystery. Yet then FM Mr Bhutto had resigned from his job and had announced that he would open secrets of Tashkent. Although he remained silent yet it a common fact that we did it again on foreign cum US advice.
So waiting for the 6th fleet was not knew and it never came. So in Feb 1972, ZAB did a historic speech and had left Commonwealth. It was a first step to revisit Western reliance yet till after 5th July 1977 , Pakistan was again shifted to pre 16 December 1971 policy. It is an interesting fact that Pakistan was not allowed to rejoin CW during Zia times although it was a frontline State. Return of Pakistan in CW happened in the first period of ZAB's daughter. Foreign powers wanted to remind us that we could compel same party to revise its mistake to challenge us. May be they are working similarly on Nawaz Sharief too, these days. its a story of colonial mindset that is still their in so-called post colonial times.
What is missing in the debate mentioned above regarding 5th july is role of World Bank, Structural Adjustment Program,Privatization without regulation, promotion of Jihad along with killing of Public education, compromises of Pukhtoon, Baloch, Sindhi nationalists, support of dictatorship and entry of NGOs & Jihadi phenomenons.
Link of the show
Some interesting things for further inquiry
An interesting audio recording of Radio Pakistan news aired at 6 am July 5th 1977 without knowing imposition of marshallah but finally caught at the end.
conversation with early workers of PPP... Sohail Mannaan, Mian Sajid Pervaiz, Malik Ghulam Jailani Akhter, Justice R Malik Saeed Hasan and Farooq Baidar...
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