Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kodayake, Jamus ta ci gaba da tsaka tsaki a lokacin yakin 1971 na Indiya da Pakistan; Gabashin Jamus ta zama ƙasa ta uku a duniya, kuma ƙasa ta farko a Turai, don amincewa da Bangladesh a 1972 bayan da ta sami 'yancin kai
a shekara ta 1971. Wannan ba abin mamaki bane, tunda gwamnatin GDR ta nuna goyon baya ga masu rabuwa da Indiya a cikin Awami League yayin da rikici ya gudana. Daga baya a cikin shekarun 1970, Pakistan ta daidaita alaƙar ta da Gabashin Jamus da rukunin Soviet. A watan Janairun 1973, Ofishin Jakadancin GDR a Pakistan ya buɗe ƙofofinsa a ƙarƙashin chargé d'affaires Walter Schmidt, wanda aka maye gurbinsa a watan Afrilu mai zuwa da jakadan na farko na yau da kullun, Hans Maretzki. 'Yan makonni da suka gabata, a farkon watan Afrilu, Pakistan ta bude ofishin jakadancinta a Gabashin Berlin; Jamshed K.A. Marker, tsohon jakadan a Ottawa, shi ne jakadanta na farko.