It is interesting to see Mahmood Shaam contradict himself within a single article. First he claims that the East and the West Pakistanis were united during the 1965 war, which he believes Pakistan won! Then he admits that right after the war, East Pakistan militated against West Pakistan.
It is common sense that victory in war unites a people, while loss, like the one that Pakistan suffered in 1965, gives opportunitiy for the disgruntled factions to break free. Since Pakistan lost the war, East Pakistan was emboldened to militate.
Contrast this with the scene in Kashmir: Since India decimated Pakistan in the war, Kashmiris stayed with the victorious India.
One could understand if Pakistan, whose collective ego and Islamic psyche must have been damaged because of the comprehensive defeats in the wars of 1965 and 1971, wants to rewrite history. But if they want to look credible in the eyes of anyone outside their own Kalamah-filled hearts and madrassas, their apologists must at least pen an article without internal contraditions!
It seems as if the penmanship of Pakistanis is not much better their swordsmanship!
