A short history of traitorship in Pakistan

Courtesy: The Nation

Ever since its inception in 1947, one thing that Pakistan is excelled at is producing traitors. Using the allegations of treachery to malign politicians, intellectuals and activists has been a time tested practice in Pakistan.

Murder of History

Courtesy: Laaltain Magazine

Khurshid Kamal Aziz, commonly known as K. K. Aziz, was a renowned Pakistani historian. During his illustrious career, he taught at many reputed universities home and abroad including University of Cambridge. He authored many books about history, the most famous of them being Murder of History. This book is primarily a critique of the school textbooks taught in Pakistan. Mr. Aziz has identified errors taught in history and tried to correct them. This is a must read book for every Pakistani, especially for those whose only source of history has been the school textbooks. Author has uncovered the major distortions of history in school textbooks and also provided a correct version of history.

Unlearned Lesson: The fall of Dhaka

Today is 40^th anniversary of fall of Dhaka. Exactly 40 years ago, General Niazi signed the surrender agreement with Indian General Jagjit Singh Arora. Since then a lot has changed. Now Pakistan and Bangladesh are separate countries and enjoy good relations with each other. Even today it seems that we have not learnt any lesson from East Pakistan debacle.

Tension with Bengali people started immediately after formation of united Pakistan in 1947, when Urdu was declared national language whereas Bengalese were in majority.Few student protestors died on 21^st February 1952 while protesting for Bangla as a Co-national language. That specific day is celebrated as International Mother Language day. Bangla was declared a national language in 1954 but a rift had already occurred between East and West Pakistan.