HOSHIAR KHABARDAAR
Pakistanis must watch-out! The current honey and sugar atmosphere of Aman ki Asha between “Trojan Horse GEO” and Times of India and the Burger Crowd of Pakistan is a clear and present danger to the security of Pakistan.
For Who deceives me once, God forgive him; if twice, God forgive him; but if thrice, God forgive him, but not me, because I could not beware.
[1611 Tarlton’s Jests (1844) 11]
He that deceives me once, it is his faul[t]; if twice, it is mine.
[1659 N. R. Proverbs English, French, Dutch, Italian & Spanish 54]
An old saying? He that deceives me once, shame fall on him; if he deceives me twice, shame fall on me.’
1971 : Vignettes from the Past
Operation Deception
One of the best kept secret of the 1971 war was the fact that India laid out an elaborate deception game to beguile the enemy into believing that its war aim was to merely help the Mukti Bahini liberate Khulna, Chittagong and a few other districts, from where the independent Bangladesh movement would continue.
Inspired leaks to the international media hinted that India would help the Mukti Bahini create a liberated zone in East Pakistan and be satisfied with it.
However, when the war really began in December, many cantonments including Chittagong was simply bypassed. The orders had come that Dhaka, and only Dhaka would be the target. The order to troops was to bypass towns, use subsidiary tracks and head straight for Dhaka.
The Pakistani army, consequently never realised that in 14 days time, Indian troops along with Muktis would be at Dhaka’s doorsteps.
Indians and the Mukti Bahini needed to be in Dhaka fast, before the United Nations acted and declared a ceasefire, before China could manouvere troops to intervene on behalf of Pakistan.
