Jamaat has always been a pro-Pakistan force within Bangladesh, even when the landmass was called East Pakistan, before the 1971 war of liberation, which was crafted by its own leaders due to the injustice and genocide meted out to its people by West Pakistan’s political and military leadership. Jamaat has always been a pro-Pakistan force within Bangladesh, even when the landmass was called East Pakistan, before the 1971 war of liberation, which was crafted by its own leaders due to the injustice and genocide meted out to its people by West Pakistan’s political and military leadership.