Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report

This article is about the final report issued by the Hamoodur Rahman Commission. For other uses, see Hamoodur Rahman Commission.

Pakistan in Asia: Pakistan's historical map before or prior to 1971.

The Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report contains the official and now-declassified papers of the events leading up to loss of the East-Pakistan and the 1971 war with India. Initially there were 12 copies of the report prepared by the Chief Justice Hamoodur Rahman; all but one were destroyed. That single report was handed over to Government, which forbade its publication at the time. The report was leaked eventually by the Indian and the Pakistani newspapers, Dawn, drawing the attention of the public to its front pages in 2000. An editorial entitled, "Gen Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan - 4" written by Ardeshir Cowasjee on the basis of the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report, demonstrated that "three men principally (had been) responsible for the loss, at the end of 1971, of half of Jinnah's Pakistan— end of story."

The Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report was finally declassified by the Government of Pakistan in the year 2000, and is now available to the public as public domain and as a free download.This is just the supplementary report which was created after the prisoners of war returned after two years. The initial report is never published nor is accessible to anyone.