• Gen Niazi was ordered to surrender .

    From babor74@hotmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 5 15:35:42 2018
    On Monday, 29 November 1999 08:00:00 UTC, Mo wrote:
    Gen (R) Niazi demands fresh probe into East Pakistan debacle
    ISLAMABAD (Online) - Lt Gen (Retd) Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, the last
    Chief of united Pakistan's Eastern Command has emphasised the need to
    set up an authoritative commission to find out the underlying reasons
    of East Pakistan's separation. He said the history has been
    intentionally tarnished which needed to be corrected and the people
    should be apprised of the true facet of the history. He said though
    three main characters involved in separation of East Pakistan Gen
    Yahya Khan, Sh Mujibur Rehman and Zulkiqar Ali Bhutto were no more yet
    he (Gen Niazi) was ready to appear before such a tribunal. He
    expressed these views in an exclusive interview with "Online".
    It must be remembered that Gen Niazi, now 83, is one of the world's
    most honoured Generals but unfortunately the General who earned many
    laurels for his bravery had to face his life's worst humiliation on
    December 16, 1971 in Dhaka and he was being subjected to bitter
    criticism by the nation during the last 28 years. Gen Niazi was twice conferred Hilal-e-Jurrat, first after 1965-war and then after 1971
    war. In addition, he has also been awarded Sitara-e-Pakistan and Sitara-e-Khidmat.
    Gen Niazi said he never wanted to surrender before the enemy but being
    a soldier of the most disciplined army, he had to abide by the orders.

    He claimed that the United States had quoted him as "there are only
    few men like him in the history".
    He said when he reached East Pakistan on April 14, 1971, every thing
    was in a shambles; there was no concept of borders between East
    Pakistan and India; except for few areas, rebels had occupied the
    entire region and blocked all land and sea routes.
    At that time a huge army of about 2-3 Lakh men with guerrilla training
    was needed to control the situation but with only 45,000 men, we
    fought the guerrillas in East Pakistan and then the Indian force at
    3,000 miles long front. He disclosed that out of these 45,000 jawans,
    only 34,000 were regular army including 23,000 infantry. They were
    required to fight 350,000 enemy troops in addition to Mukti Bahini guerrillas.
    But we proved it to the world that Pak Army was the best. Pak Army
    still has the potential to defeat Indians, he declared.
    He said that bravery of the Pakistan Army could be gauged from the
    fact that in World War-II that continued for years, only one military
    burial took place while in East Pakistan, four military burials took
    place in just 26 days war. Military burial is a term used for burial
    of a soldier by the enemy with full military honour. "No one can
    defeat such a nation", the former General said.
    Answering a question, Gen Niazi disclosed that on the night of
    December 13, he and Governor Abdul Malik received a phone call from
    Yahya Khan who appreciated them for their bravery and said the whole
    nation was proud of them but its beyond human strength to keep
    fighting with the enemy anymore and ordered him to stop fighting. The
    General said he kept on requesting rather begging to let him face the
    enemy. He sent the last signal on December 15 that he did not want to surrender but he was forced to do so.
    Regarding arrival of the 7th Fleet, he said he and the whole nation
    was deceived. The fleet was not coming; it was all a fraud. "I was
    also informed that the Chinese were coming to my help but that too was
    a white lie", he added.
    Answering a question, he said being the last commander he could have
    escaped which in turn would have proved beneficial to him. Had he
    escaped, he would not have to sign the documents of surrender and did
    not have to face the imprisonment, he commented. He disclosed that he
    also had heavy amount in the shape of Pakistani and foreign currency
    and travellers cheques which he had collected to prevent from going in enemy's hands. But there were some drawbacks as well; Urdu-Speaking
    people might have faced mass-killings; women would have been
    dishonoured; and officers and jawans men tortured. "My conscience did
    not let me escape", he said.
    "One has to have a lion's heart to face the defeat", he revealed. He
    told that many conspiracies were fabricated to tarnish the image of
    Pak Army but all such charges like raping women were false.
    Answering a question about Hamoodur Rehman Commission, he said it was
    all a drama and there were 'other' reasons for its establishment. He
    said he appeared before the commission two or three times but every
    time he was asked irrelevant questions.

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  • From babor74@hotmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 5 15:37:43 2018
    On Monday, 29 November 1999 08:00:00 UTC, Mo wrote:
    Gen (R) Niazi demands fresh probe into East Pakistan debacle
    ISLAMABAD (Online) - Lt Gen (Retd) Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, the last
    Chief of united Pakistan's Eastern Command has emphasised the need to
    set up an authoritative commission to find out the underlying reasons
    of East Pakistan's separation. He said the history has been
    intentionally tarnished which needed to be corrected and the people
    should be apprised of the true facet of the history. He said though
    three main characters involved in separation of East Pakistan Gen
    Yahya Khan, Sh Mujibur Rehman and Zulkiqar Ali Bhutto were no more yet
    he (Gen Niazi) was ready to appear before such a tribunal. He
    expressed these views in an exclusive interview with "Online".
    It must be remembered that Gen Niazi, now 83, is one of the world's
    most honoured Generals but unfortunately the General who earned many
    laurels for his bravery had to face his life's worst humiliation on
    December 16, 1971 in Dhaka and he was being subjected to bitter
    criticism by the nation during the last 28 years. Gen Niazi was twice conferred Hilal-e-Jurrat, first after 1965-war and then after 1971
    war. In addition, he has also been awarded Sitara-e-Pakistan and Sitara-e-Khidmat.
    Gen Niazi said he never wanted to surrender before the enemy but being
    a soldier of the most disciplined army, he had to abide by the orders.

    He claimed that the United States had quoted him as "there are only
    few men like him in the history".
    He said when he reached East Pakistan on April 14, 1971, every thing
    was in a shambles; there was no concept of borders between East
    Pakistan and India; except for few areas, rebels had occupied the
    entire region and blocked all land and sea routes.
    At that time a huge army of about 2-3 Lakh men with guerrilla training
    was needed to control the situation but with only 45,000 men, we
    fought the guerrillas in East Pakistan and then the Indian force at
    3,000 miles long front. He disclosed that out of these 45,000 jawans,
    only 34,000 were regular army including 23,000 infantry. They were
    required to fight 350,000 enemy troops in addition to Mukti Bahini guerrillas.
    But we proved it to the world that Pak Army was the best. Pak Army
    still has the potential to defeat Indians, he declared.
    He said that bravery of the Pakistan Army could be gauged from the
    fact that in World War-II that continued for years, only one military
    burial took place while in East Pakistan, four military burials took
    place in just 26 days war. Military burial is a term used for burial
    of a soldier by the enemy with full military honour. "No one can
    defeat such a nation", the former General said.
    Answering a question, Gen Niazi disclosed that on the night of
    December 13, he and Governor Abdul Malik received a phone call from
    Yahya Khan who appreciated them for their bravery and said the whole
    nation was proud of them but its beyond human strength to keep
    fighting with the enemy anymore and ordered him to stop fighting. The
    General said he kept on requesting rather begging to let him face the
    enemy. He sent the last signal on December 15 that he did not want to surrender but he was forced to do so.
    Regarding arrival of the 7th Fleet, he said he and the whole nation
    was deceived. The fleet was not coming; it was all a fraud. "I was
    also informed that the Chinese were coming to my help but that too was
    a white lie", he added.
    Answering a question, he said being the last commander he could have
    escaped which in turn would have proved beneficial to him. Had he
    escaped, he would not have to sign the documents of surrender and did
    not have to face the imprisonment, he commented. He disclosed that he
    also had heavy amount in the shape of Pakistani and foreign currency
    and travellers cheques which he had collected to prevent from going in enemy's hands. But there were some drawbacks as well; Urdu-Speaking
    people might have faced mass-killings; women would have been
    dishonoured; and officers and jawans men tortured. "My conscience did
    not let me escape", he said.
    "One has to have a lion's heart to face the defeat", he revealed. He
    told that many conspiracies were fabricated to tarnish the image of
    Pak Army but all such charges like raping women were false.
    Answering a question about Hamoodur Rehman Commission, he said it was
    all a drama and there were 'other' reasons for its establishment. He
    said he appeared before the commission two or three times but every
    time he was asked irrelevant questions.

    What a load of claptrap written by a deluded fool which is Niazi,best army in the World, what a joke.

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