Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I haere a Pakistani Bengal i roto i te wa o te pehanga, i te mea i te 1958 Pakistani coup d'état i whakaturia te mana rangatira o Ayub Khan, i patu i nga nekehanga maui me te manapori o Bengali. I puta mai a Sheikh Mujibur Rahman hei kaiarahi mo te whakahee me te whakarewa i te nekehanga e ono nga tohu mo te mana motuhake i Pakistan ki te Rawhiti. I te tau 1969, i arahina e te whakaekenga nui i Pakistan ki te Rawhiti ki te hinga o Ayub Khan me te wikitoria o te pooti mo Rahman. Engari ko te kaiarahi hou o te ope taua a Yahya Khan i kore e whakaae ki nga hua me te whakatinana i te ture whawhai i runga i te Rawhiti o Pakistan. Hei wāhanga o te Operation Searchlight, ka tīmata te ope taua Pakistani ki te mahi i te kohurutanga
ki te iwi Bengal, patua rau o nga mano. Na tenei i kii te Whakaputanga o te Motuhake o Bangladesh me te timatanga o te Pakanga Whakaputanga o Bangladesh, i hua ai te tuku o nga ope Pakistani me te mana motuhake o te People's Republic of Bangladesh.