Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin shekarun 1960, kira don ƙarin ƙaddarar kai ya karu a Gabashin Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ya fito a matsayin shugaban masu adawa da lardin a kan jihar Pakistan. Rahman ya ƙaddamar da motsi na maki shida don cin gashin kai a cikin 1966. A zaben kasa na shekarar 1970, jam'iyyar Rahman, Awami League, ta lashe mafi yawan kujeru a majalisar. Tsohon gwamnatin sojin Pakistan ta ki amincewa da sakamakon zaben wanda ya haifar da rashin biyayya a duk Gabashin Pakistan. Sojojin Pakistan sun amsa da kaddamar da kisan kare dangi
wanda ya haifar da Yakin 'Yanci na Bangladesh a shekarar 1971. Gwamnatin farko ta Bangladesh da Mukti Bahini sun gudanar da yakin basasa tare da goyon bayan makwabciyar Indiya, wacce ta dauki bakuncin miliyoyin 'yan gudun hijirar yaki. Tallafin duniya ga 'yancin kai na Gabashin Pakistan ya karu saboda rikicin jin kai na rikici, tare da Sojojin Indiya sun shiga tsakani don tallafawa Sojojin Bangladesh a makonni biyu na ƙarshe na yaƙin kuma tabbatar da mika wuya na Pakistan.