The war on the ground was being fought in the border areas and towns of Jessore, Khulna, Natore, Kushtia, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Sylhet, etc. They shot down several enemy planes, yet there were so many Indian planes that the airport runway was destroyed, with all the planes standing there. The Pak gunners on the ground put up a brave fight. Wave after wave of MIGs and Hunters flew over the airport dropping heavy bombs.
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The very next day, the Indian Air Force attacked Dhaka Airport with their full might. They tried to bomb Dhaka Airport and the Dhaka Cantonment area but the bombs, dropped from such a great height, went astray and missed their targets. Indian planes, MIG-21s and SU-7s, were circling over Dhaka at a very high altitude to avoid ground fire. After some moments, I caught sight of several white specks moving about in an orderly fashion. Following their gaze, I lifted my head to scan the sky. On the morning of December 4, I caught a small group of people looking up at the sky, trembling with excitement. Eventually, on December 3, 1971, war with India was declared.Ī survivor of the 1971 civil war recounts the harrowing events of December 16 as a resident in a Bihari locality in Dhaka The border skirmishes were rapidly turning into bloody attacks on Pakistani troops. By mid-November 1971, the situation in the border areas had become alarming as more and more Mukti Bahini fighters kept pouring in from Indian Bengal. India had set up hundreds of training camps in West Bengal where they trained and armed Bengali youths from East Pakistan to form the Mukti Bahini (Liberation Army). The demography here was roughly 90 percent Bengali and 10 percent Non-Bengalis, or Biharis as they were usually called. The Post and Telegraph (P&T) colony, where we lived, consisted of several three-storied apartment buildings, surrounded by a boundary wall. My father was an employee of Pakistan Postal Service. I was born and bred in Dacca, as it was formerly called, the capital of East Pakistan. My parents migrated from the Indian province of Bihar to East Pakistan in 1947. So to commemorate, in a way of speaking, the ‘48th death anniversary’ of East Pakistan, I would like to recount here some of the events that I, as a resident of Dhaka, witnessed. I simply believe, though, that we should remember this day to pay homage to the patriots who gave their lives for Pakistan so that we can learn lessons from the events that occurred in the past in order to avoid any such recurrence in the future. For the younger generation, I would recommend Brigadier Siddique Salik’s book Main Ne Dacca Doobtey Dekha which throws ample light on the subject and is worth reading.
Much has been written about this watershed in Pakistan’s history. The lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians were lost. On December 16, 1971, Pakistani troops laid down their arms and surrendered to India for the secession of East Pakistan. Supporters cheer Sheikh Mujeebur Rahman at liberation | File photo
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