
Pakistonomy - Episode 136 - Military Intervention, Politics, and the Birth of Bangladesh
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Did America Betrayed Pakistan by Not Supporting the Pakistan Army in 1971?
There was this inherent racism or bigotry in the armed forces. A Muslim soldier is worth four or five Hindu Indian soldiers, you heard that from my grandfather and my father where Bengalis were seen as racially inferior could not fight. The same applies to his threat about breaking the legs of people if they went to attend the National Assembly session in East Pakistan. I think Mr butto may have thought this, he may have conveyed the sense but I don't see any solid source of where he actually said this. It is most probably a result of an Urdu newspaper editor trying to convey his thoughts by using this headline. So did America sort of you know betray Pakistan and what was the role of racism
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