Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Dangantaka tsakanin Gabas da Yammacin Pakistan ta kasance mai tsauri tun lokacin Raba. Pakistan ta Gabas ta fada cikin rikici a ranar 12 ga Nuwamba 1970 lokacin da Cylon Bhola ya buge Bengal tare da asarar rayuka da kuma mummunar tasiri ga al'umma da tattalin arziki. Gwamnatin Pakistan, wacce ke da zama a Yammacin Pakistan, an la'anta ta sosai saboda jinkirin da ta yi game da rikicin. Bayan 'yan makonni, lokacin da aka gudanar da babban zaben kasar a ranar 7 ga Disamba, fushin da aka yi a Gabas ya haifar da nasara ga kungiyar Awami wacce ta kasance jam'iyyar kishin kasa ta Bengali karkashin jagorancin Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Wannan ya haifar da bude tattaunawa tsakanin wakilan Gabas da Yammacin fuka-fuki na Pakistan game da makomar kundin tsarin mulkin kasar a karkashin gwamnatin kasa karkashin jagorancin kungiyar Awami, da kuma shawarwarin raba ikon tsakanin gwamnatin tsakiya da larduna. Tattaunawar ba ta yi nasara ba wajen warware matsalar kuma, a ranar 1 ga Maris, 1971, Shugaban Pakistan Yahya Khan ya jinkirta zaman Majalisar Dokokin da ke jiran har abada, wanda ya haifar da rashin biyayya ga jama'a a Gabashin Pakistan. Makonni uku bayan haka, Bangladesh ta ayyana 'yancin kai a hukumance kuma kasar ta shiga cikin yakin neman' yanci
wanda ya ci gaba har zuwa 1971 har sai da Indiya ta shiga tsakani, don tallafawa 'yan Bangladesh, a ranar 3 ga Disamba, 1971. Yaƙin Indo-Pakistan na 1971 ya kasance na ɗan gajeren lokaci kuma ya haifar da mika wuya ga Pakistan a ranar 16 ga Disamba, 1971, wanda aka yi bikin a matsayin Ranar Nasara a Bangladesh, wanda aka kafa a matsayin sabuwar al'umma.