Yahya steps down 1970: how long can a united Pakistan last?

Let's say that Humphrey/Kennedy/Rocky are POTUS in 1970 and force Yahya to accept the election results. Mujib is sworn in as President of a united Pakistan. Given his OTL history in Bangladesh he's almost as far from a Nehru figure as Yahya, so how long can this arrangement last? Any overt detente with India will most likely provoke a military coup, but will we see anything like the Simla Accords or a resolution of Kashmir? WHo will become PM, etc?
 

Ak-84

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YK had in OTL little desire to remain in power as is well attested by pretty much everyone who dealt with him at the time. He saw his remit to set up a responsible government and go home. YK distrusted Mujeeb because he saw him as a secessionist (rightly) and liked Bhutto even less.

W Pak and E Pak were never going to last long and in this scenario I could see the West giving the East the heave ho, an idea which had a lot of support in OTL W Pakistan.
 
Then the General was being disingenuous. Secession or no secession, under the terms of his own Constitution Mujib had been elected President by the National Assembly and he had to leave office. Was there any provision or legal mechanism in the Pakistani Constitution, given how unworkable the arrangement was from the outset, for secession? Or any Supreme Court rulings or advisory opinions on the matter? (Not that military dictators give a damn about such niceties)
 

Ak-84

Banned
YK was President, Mujeeb was standing to be PM. As it was YK had stated on multiple occassions that Mujeeb would be PM before March 17 1971 when the had their last meeting.

It is usually forgotten that in the weeks leading up to the events of March 1971 E Pak had become ungovernable, with Mujeeb's goons controlling the streets and the police and local government had all but lost control. Hundreds of non Bengalis were killed, raped or robbed. YK had told Mujeeb that if he could call of the AL mobs he could be PM but Mujeeb refused to do so.

Furthermost, Mujeeb was in liason with Indian government officials which infuriated YK who knew about the links as the ISI had heavily penetrated the Indian establishment in the late 1960's. So YK did not believe in Mujeeb's sincerity and again he was right to doubt it.

He was also right to have launched the operation, BUT and this was his mistake, he should have kept it limited to restoring order, which in OTL was achieved by May 1971. That was an opportune moment, if he had then called for a government to be formed, I think it could have succeeded,
 
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