true , its one of the rawest numbers out tbh <| sep |># Henry Kissinger ' s stunning revelations about Pakistan in the lead up to the 1971 IndoPak warIMAGE 155617255 , width 400 , resizemode 455617255 . jpgISLAMABAD Under US pressure , Pakistan had in November agreed to grant independence to what was then East Pakistan , former US diplomatHenry Kissingerhas revealed in an interview in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine . Instead , Pakistan attacked India a month later , on December 3 , 1971 , forcing India to retaliate and eventually joined forces with East Pakistan in what would become theBangladeshLiberation War . Kissinger ' s revelation only confirms that Pakistan appears to have a long history of breaking promises . If Islamabad genuinely wanted to give East Pakistan autonomy , its air force wouldn ' t have attacked the Indian Air Force ' s forward airbases and radar installations under ' Operation Chengiz Khan . ' That attack led to India ' s entry into the war of independence in East Pakistan on the moral side of Bangladeshi nationalist forces . Kissinger , who in 1971 wasUS National Security Adviser , said that the US couldn ' t directly condemn Pakistan ' s gross humanrights violations in East Pakistan as it was using Islamabad as an interlocutor to open diplomatic relations with China . To condemn these violations publicly would have destroyed the Pakistani channel , which would be needed for months to complete the opening to China . After the opening to China via Pakistan , America engaged in increasingly urging Pakistan to grant autonomy to Bangladesh . In November , the Pakistani president agreed with then US PresidentNixonto grant independence the following March , Nixon said in the interview to the US magazine . To be sure , both Pakistan and China still aren ' t exactly exemplars of democracy and flourishing human rights . By Kissinger ' s own admission , it was a fraught moment in history for US foreign policy . The U . S . had to navigate between Soviet pressures Indian objectives Chinese suspicions and Pakistani nationalism . Adjustments had to be madeand would require a book to coverbut the results require no apology . By March 1972 within less than a year of the commencement of the crisisBangladesh was independent the IndiaPakistan War ended and the opening to China completed at a summit in Beijing in February 1972 , he said . Version 0 . 5 b Function I post the article ' s text as a comment if the website is adblocker unfriendly . I accept commands ! Rendered by PROMETHEUS