Pakistan prone to repeat mistakes

December 16, in Pakistan’s less-than-enviable and chequered history, is a black day, a very black day. To borrow a phrase from President Roosevelt’s historic speech a day after the attack on Pearl Harbour, it’s “a date which will live in infamy” forever in the collective memory of the Pakistanis. December 16, 1971, was the day the commander of Pakistan’s Eastern Command, General Tiger Niazi, surrendered to his Indian counterpart, General Aurora at a ceremony in the Paltan Maidan of Dhaka, following Pakistan’s ignominious defeat in the war that was for the Begalis of the then East Pakistan a ‘war of liberation’. The independent state of Bangladesh was born that day out of the ashes of a divided Pakistan’s eastern limb.

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