I still mourn, do you?

East Pakistan died on December 16, 1971, at the Paltan Maidan in Dacca (now spelled as Dhaka). On its debris emerged a new country, Bangladesh, as a result of a big conspiracy and blatant aggression by India in the garb of the Mukti Bahini force patronised by the neighbouring country through Shaikh Mujibur Rehman.

It was on this day, perhaps the darkest day in the history of Pakistan so far, that the then Commander Eastern Command Lt General A.A.K. Niazi had surrendered before the Indian Army General Arora at a ceremony by symbolically laying down his pistol. The very presence of the Indian General established the bitter fact that it was India and none else who had caused the separation of East Pakistan from West Pakistan. It broke a country, which had emerged on the world map only on August 14, 1947, out of nowhere while it was hardly 24 years old.

The factors responsible for this great tragedy are yet to be identified and the guilty individuals have not been punished despite being named in the comprehensive report produced by the Commission of Inquiry headed by the then Chief Justice of Pakistan, Hamoodur Rehman. The three-member Commission of Inquiry was constituted by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who had become the President as well as the first-ever Civilian Chief Martial Law Administrator at the Fall of Dacca and the then President and Commander-in-Chief General, Muhammad Yahya Khan had stepped down, handing over the remainder of Pakistan.

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For refreshing the memory of the readers, it is mentioned here that the other two members of the Commission of Inquiry were Justice S Anwarul Haq, a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Justice Tufail Ali, Chief Justice of the Sindh and Balochistan High Court.

Even after 48 years of the great tragedy, those named in the Hamoodur Rehman Commission Report, submitted in two parts, have not been held accountable as such so far. They had caused the dismemberment of Pakistan and lived on not...