Going back to '71
The Larkana conspiracy, hatched by the trio of General Akber Khan, ISI chief, Mr Awan, presidential security chief, and Mr ZA Bhutto, the chief architect of 'West Pakistan's supremacy' was at the root of the political crisis.
In order to safeguard their identity and entity, the Bengalee intellectuals drafted the famous six points programme which was publicised by the Press Trust newspapers of Ayub Khan to counter the famous or infamous Tashkent Declaration. The trio had no intention of handing over power to the only majority party leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and eventually postponement of the Dhaka session of the National Assembly of Pakistan led to the mass movement for the survival of the people of the then East Pakistan.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. On March 25, 1971, the Pakistan army started a war against the Bengalee nation. Tikka Khan took over as the governor of the then East Pakistan. This government had no legitimacy .
Professor Golam Azam, the Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, met Tikka Khan without taking any mandate from his party following the advice of his uncle Late AQM Shafiqul Islam, the then chief of Council Muslim League. Both of them met Tikka Khan and television and radio broadcasts followed.
We fail to understand how a minister of the present government could say that the then government was legitimate.