اُردو ناول پر سانحۂ مشرقی پاکستان (۱۹۷۱ء)کے اثرات : ۲۰۰۰ء تا حال

Abstract

This article examines how 21st-century Urdu novelists – including Sohail Parwaz, Hameed Shahid, Aqila Saleem, Bashir Ahmed, and Khalid Fateh Muhammad – deploy innovative narrative techniques (fragmented timelines, multiple voices, symbolic landscapes) to confront the unresolved trauma of the 1971 East Pakistan Tragedy (Fall of Dhaka). Their narratives critically engage with the brutal military conflict between the Pakistan Army and the Mukti Bahini, alongside the potent Bengali freedom movement, which culminated in Dhaka's fall. Moving beyond historical chronicle, their fiction interrogates the deep psychological scars, collective guilt, and identity crises stemming from these events. These novels serve as vital spaces for challenging dominant narratives, exposing suppressed historical truths, and processing the nation's enduring sociopolitical wounds. Through their work, the authors reveal how 1971 continues to fracture Pakistani consciousness and provoke urgent reflection on state violence, historical accountability, and the precarious nature of nationhood across the subcontinent.