Triumph in 1971?
Pakistan's generals, whether Field Marshal Ayub Khan or Yahya Khan could not see through Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's game of wanting to get rid of the East so that he could be the Prime Minister. Even as late as 1971, President Yahya Khan could have negotiated with the Bangabandhu for an amicable settlement. Instead, they sent General Tikka Khan to Dhaka to perpetrate one of the biggest pogroms in the annals of history