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

The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations.

Please consider supporting us on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperience

To support the channel:

Jazzcash/Easypaisa - 0325 -2982912

Patreon.com/thepakistanexperience