Pakistan, Aug. 9 -- The political journey of the daughter of Shiekh Mujib and the longest-serving Bangladeshi PM - Sheikh Hasina, took a sharp turn when she landed in India - the country that actively participated in the bifurcation of Pakistan in 1971; after she was forced to resign after days of violent student protests across the country.

It was in Agartala - a city in the state of Tripura, India where her father had colluded with the Indian officials to use brute force in dissecting Pakistan into two. The Agartala conspiracy case would go down in history as a calamitous moment in the struggle for the bloodied Bengali independence from the newly found Muslim state in South Asia - which had just thrown off the yoke of British raj.

The...