Talk:Yahya Khan

message: During the 1971 war, Kamrul Hasan, a Bengali painter, designed a poster for campaign for Liberation which depicted his face as caricature.
::I do understand your feeling Mr. Ashraf! So I would like to call upon all sensible Pakistanis to stop highlighting Yahya Khan for the sake of humanitarinism and for lasting Bangladesh Pakistan friendship. As no present day sensible German stands beside Hitler, no present day educated Pakistani should also not stand beside yahya's legacy and rather denounce him strongly.Murad67 05:41, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yahya was a power hungry mongrel 

message: Idleguy pointed this out a few years ago and fixed it, but it's come back -- huge chunks of this article are again lifted from this site. I don't have time to fix it immediately but someone should look at it. Shayborg (talk) 20:05, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: I don't have any idea what this means: "However dissolution of one unit did not lead to the positive results that it might have led to in case "One Unit" was dissolved earlier." Is this something like, "Dissolving the unit later was not so beneficial as dissolving it earlier might have been"?
Hughdbrown (talk) 23:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: The main article has a clear pro bangladeshi bias especially evident in the ridiculous figure of 3 million civilians having been allegadly murdered by the west pakistani army and 400,000 raped. This figure is from the realms of obscene fantasy and suprise suprise it doesnt carry any sources or posting of evidence. Sharmila Bose the Indian BC correspondant put the death figure at 300,000 and claimed the observed figure of 300,000 was mistranslated in bengali into 3 million (Times Magazine January 1972). This figure also included the ethnic cleansing and murder of loyal east pakistanis and ethnic biharis by the mukhti bahini.
These facts should be included to present a more balanced account in this pivotal event in the protaganist Yahya Khans life.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.202.218.32 (talk) 15:56, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Anon comment

message: As has been mentioned previously, much of the text of this article is identical to text here.  I've deleted all the verbatim material.  In the unlikely event that defencejournal.com plagiarized Wikipedia rather than the other way around, my apologies and please revert.--Wikimedes (talk) 00:23, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright violations in article 

message: This is a man accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. It's astonishing that this article has no information on the war crimes allegations against him, especially his "kill 3 million of them" remark. What has Wikipedia come to. All 1971 articles have been hijacked by the nationalist thugs of Pakistan.--ChaudhryAzan (talk) 04:39, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terrible, terrible terrible 

message: these two sources mention him as of persian origin through nadir shah who was a qizilbash. though they are persianized turks
John Keay. "India: A History. Revised and Updated"Nikhat Ekbal. "Great Muslims of undivided India"
i will post more sources for his persianized turkic qizilbash origin soon.
:Virtually every source around there has always showed him as being of Pathan/Pashtun descent. Pashtuns/Pathans are one of the largest ethnicities in that region after all, so its nothing strange. The sources that were already present on this very article, have always showed him as of being of Pathan origin too.Hugh Tinker. "South Asia: A Short History" University of Hawaii Press, 1990.  p 248Shahid Javed Burki. "Historical Dictionary of Pakistan"  p 596
:Here some more sources that confirm this again, that he's an ethnic Pathan.Brian Loveman. Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era, Volume 2 Rowman & Littlefield, 1 jan. 2004  p 233Dilip Hiro. The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan Nation Books, 24 feb. 2015  p 183Ayesha Jalal. Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. p. 194. Cambridge University Press, 6 apr. 1995 (Cambridge South Asian studies,
Volume 1 of Contemporary South Asia) Year Book Covering the Year 1972 Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation, 1971 (Original from the Indiana University) Digitalised on 13 Aug 2009 There are many many more, but I don't see the reason as for why we should add more undue weight and having like 10 sources sticked behind the sentence.
:And here this fine quote again of Time magazine, which layed emphasis on this as well again, that he was of nothing but Pathan/Pashtun descent.
:Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 01:11, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  persian or pathan origin of yahya khan? Can anyone provide sources to his pathan or persian qizilbash origin.  

message: All sources say he was traditionally Pashtun so the article must reflect on that. Pashtun is not a family tree or bloodline but a confederation of various tribes who come from different backgrounds, i.e., Turks, Persians, Arabs, Hindus/Indus (those in Pakistan), so on and so on.--Krzyhorse22 (talk) 23:49, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Established fact he was traditionally Pashtun

message: Saladin has attempted many times before to push in the same type of pseudo-historical revisionism by using completely non-WP:RS sources (e.g Wikipedia mirrors, blogspots, and what-not).------. He has been reverted on every attempt, while being presented with a clear rationale and told to cease these disruptive additions, yet unfortunately he still continues (now months later) to re-add the same stuff. This is pure disruption on multiple fronts. I suggest to report him the next time directly to ANI. - LouisAragon (talk) 16:04, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Continuous disruption by user Saladin1987

message: Pakistan was never the largest muslim country nor now, and we must not mention Pakistan as a muslim-nation as islamic rules are not imposed officially in this country like Saudi Arabia or UAE. Abdullah Khan Bishal (talk) 10:42, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Pakistan exists as a separate entity solely because it self identifies as Islamic. When India gained independance it divided into two nations on religious grounds. IdreamofJeanie (talk) 10:49, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: okay, thanks. Abdullah Khan Bishal (talk) 11:26, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

text: even if not largest, they might've been confused with strongest muslim country during yahyas time. PreserveOurHistory (talk) 16:01, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: The largest muslim country?

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