Pakistan Lost is a series of audio essays on history exploring the choices that were made that impacted millions of people for decades to come.
Episode 5 of the series looks at the loss of East Pakistan, the war for Bangladesh and the rise of Dhakka.
Watch all the episodes of Pakistan Lost:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HVcorSr-vM&list=PLlQZ9NZnjq5qRLMfNjRNQyCTBkT0etuaZ
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:00 1947-1971
10:21 Destroying the Myths
25:51 How we remember 1971 and Lessons
Podcasts you should watch:
1. Khurram Hussain on the Economic History of Pakistan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68NUwsRH6vo
2. Anam Zakaria on a People's History of 1947 and 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YKulPg_TxA
3. Asim Sajjad Akhtar on the political history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbH4m6tfUKk
4. Yousouf Nazar on 1971 and the Economy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncXBoovBcSI
5. Ali Usman Qasmi on the history of Pakistan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhd_CgFzrA
6. Mustafa Nawaz Khokar on Reimagining Pakistan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZfLwGnjim0
7. Tariq Ali on 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOoYYGwRORk
Sources:
A) Books
1. Murder of History by K.K. Aziz
2. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Hussain Haqqani
3. Witness to Surrender by Siddiq Salik
4. From Jinnah to Zia by Muhammad Munir
5. Diaries of Justice Muhammad Ibrahim
6. Sheikh Mujib's 6 point Formula by Syed Humayun
7. Conflict Unending by Sumit Ganguly
8. A Tale of Millions by Major M. Rafiqul Islam
9. The Great Tragedy by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
10. Pakistan: Eye of the Storm by Owen Benett Jones
11. 1971: A People's History by Anam Zakaria
12. The Pakistan People's Party by Philip E. Jones
13. Hamood ur Rehman Commission Report and the Supplementary Report
B) Articles
1. https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,830952,00.html
2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24494181
3. https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2022/08/12/1971-and-the-erasure-of-the-biharis/
4. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/8/15/haunted-by-unification-a-bangladeshi-view-of-partition
5. http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/csas/PDF/Mussarat%20Jabeen%207.pdf
6. https://www.dawn.com/news/1353861
7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3023816
8. https://www.nytimes.com/1954/11/23/archives/pakistani-leader-airs-merger-plan-mohammed-ali-says-both-east-and.html?searchResultPosition=2
9. https://tribune.com.pk/story/40218/the-cyclone-that-broke-pakistans-back
10. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/cyclone-not-above-politics-east-pakistan-disaster-politics-and-the-1970-bhola-cyclone/08E3F02666C89C041F57933C0C1B447E
11. https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2011/02/23/agartala-conspiracy-case-was-not-false
12. https://www.dawn.com/news/1602835
13. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/28/archives/bhutto-meets-with-mujib-says-hell-continue-talks-bhutto-meets-with.html
14. https://www.dawn.com/news/130047/niazi-surrendered-on-yahya-s-orders
18. https://www.dawn.com/news/1664104
19. https://www.dawn.com/news/1462757
28. https://www.dawn.com/news/1726305/fact-vs-fiction-pakistan-must-accept-the-uncomfortable-truths-about-the-1971-war
C) Videos
1. https://twitter.com/DrMAliShaikh/status/1628081771509166081
2. https://twitter.com/kashmiriRefuge/status/1279667976086548480?lang=en
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATr7e03N6w
4. https://twitter.com/DrMAliShaikh/status/1628414565586284544
5. VOA Series on 50 years of Fall of Dhaka
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