Kammala wannan magana: A cikin littafinsa "1971 Gaskiya da Fiction", Hashmi ya rubuta game da abubuwan siyasa da kuma yanayin da ke kewaye da
Rikicin Gabashin Pakistan na 1971. A cewar Hashmi, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman bai taba nufin Bangladesh ta rabu ba; a maimakon haka, ya yi amfani da shi a matsayin hanyar da za ta "ƙara ƙofar" tare da Islamabad kuma ya yarda da shugaban Yahya Khan don ya yarda da buƙatunsa <unk> duk da haka, halin da ake ciki ya kai "babu ma'ana". Ya kuma rubuta cewa tsohon shugaban kasa Ayub Khan da firaminista Zulfikar Ali Bhutto duk sun san tun a shekarar 1966 cewa "ba zai yiwu ba a Gabashin Pakistan ta kasance wani bangare na Pakistan na dogon lokaci". Bayan yakin ya ƙare, Firayim Ministan kasar Sin Zhou Enlai ya ce wa Bhutto: "Kada ku damu... ku yi la'akari da dogon lokaci, wanda ya san abin da zai faru a cikin yankin a cikin shekaru 50 daga yanzu, shekaru 70 daga yanzu, shekaru 100 daga yanzu!". Bayan Pakistan ta amince da Bangladesh da Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sun ziyarci Lahore a 1974 don halartar taron kolin Islama na biyu, Bhutto da Mujib sun yi musayar inda tsohon ya yi tsokaci "Ba ku da taimako! Ba za ku iya yanke shawara ba tare da amincewar Indira Gandhi ba! " Kuma na biyun ya ce "Bhutto "sahib", kada ku zage ni... kun san da kyau, duk abin da ya faru saboda ku ne!".