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DHAKA: Pakistan’s name has been blackened by just one man: General AAK Niazi, known as ‘Tiger’ Niazi during Bangladesh’s 1971 War of Independence, according to a new book published by Oxford University Press.
The author, quoted in an article on the book published in the Express Tribune of Pakistan, wrote: “Niazi is supposed to have pronounced the words that even Genghis Khan would have hesitated to use: that he would let loose his soldiers on the women of East Pakistan till the lineage/ethnicity of the Bengali race was changed.”
The account has come from a true son of Pakistan, late Major-General (retd) Khadim Hussain Raja in his recently published book--A Stranger in My Own Country: East Pakistan, 1969-1971 (OUP, 2012).
The book was posthumously published probably because it was a hot potato in the times it was actually written. Raja was General Officer of Commanding 14 Division in East Pakistan.
Some of the climax of the book reads as (Page 98): “[Enter] Commander East Pakistan General Niazi, wearing a pistol holster on his web belt. Niazi became abusive and started raving. Breaking into Urdu, he said: Main iss haramzadi qaum ki nasal badal doon ga. Yeh mujhe kiya samajhtey hain. He threatened that he would let his soldiers loose on their womenfolk.
There was pin drop silence at these remarks. The next morning, we were given the sad news. A Bengali officer Major Mushtaq went into a bathroom at the Command Headquarters and shot himself in the head”.
Niazi also asked Raja for phone numbers of his Bengali girlfriends (Page 99): “Abhi tau mujhey Bengali girlfriends kay phone number day do”.
Niazi surrendered to Indian General JFR Jacob in 1971.
Commander East Pakistan, General Tikka Khan, disagreed with Raja that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman be secretly despatched to West Pakistan. He wanted to “publicly try Sheikh Mujib in Dhaka and hang him” (Page 93).
