ABSTRACT
Bangladesh stands as the only ‘successful case of secession’ during the Cold War period, yet its liberation was hardly marked (Buchanan and Moore, 2003). Following the Kautilyan dictum, my enemy’s enemy is my friend, both Pakistan and India were busy seeking alliances with the superpowers, the United States and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), to create their own weight in the subcontinent and thereby control the course of the ‘Bangladesh Crisis’.
