Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Pakistan, tun lokacin da ta sami 'yancin kai, an raba shi zuwa manyan yankuna biyu, Pakistan ta Yamma da Pakistan ta Gabas. Gabashin Pakistan ya mamaye mafi yawan mutanen Bengali. Bayan wani aikin sojan Pakistan da kisan kare dangi a kan 'yan Bengal a watan Disamba na 1971, bayan rikicin siyasa a Gabashin Pakistan, ba da daɗewa ba yanayin ya fita daga iko a Gabashin Pakistan kuma Indiya ta shiga tsakani don tallafawa' yan tawayen Bengal. Rikicin, ɗan gajeren lokaci amma yaƙi mai zub da jini, ya haifar da 'yancin Gabashin Pakistan. A cikin yakin, Sojojin Indiya sun mamaye Gabashin Pakistan daga bangarori uku, yayin da Sojojin ruwan Indiya suka yi amfani da jirgin sama mai dauke da jirgin sama INS Vikrant (R11) don sanya takunkumin ruwan gabas ta Pakistan. Yaƙin ya ga ayyukan hare-hare na farko da Sojojin ruwan Indiya suka yi a kan tashar jiragen ruwa na abokan gaba, lokacin da aka kai wa tashar jiragen ruwa ta Karachi hari sau biyu a lokacin Operation Trident (1971).
da kuma Operation Python. Wadannan hare-haren sun lalata wani muhimmin bangare na sojojin ruwa na Pakistan, yayin da babu wani jirgin ruwa na Indiya da aka rasa. Rundunar sojan ruwa ta Indiya, duk da haka, ta rasa jirgi guda, lokacin da jirgin ruwa na INS Khukri (F149) ya fashe da jirgin ruwa na Pakistan. Kwana 13 bayan mamayewar Pakistan ta Gabas, sojojin Pakistan 93,000 sun mika wuya ga Sojojin Indiya da Mukti Bahini. Bayan mika wuya ga dakarun Pakistan, Gabashin Pakistan ta zama al'ummar Bangladesh mai zaman kanta.