Yakin 'yantar da Bangladesh ya kasance rikicin makami na juyin juya hali a Gabashin Pakistan wanda ya kai ga kirkiro Bangladesh .An fara ne a daren ranar 25 ga Maris, 1971, tare da gwamnatin mulkin sojan Pakistan, karkashin Yahya Khan, ta kaddamar da Operation Searchlight, wanda ya fara kisan kare dangi na Bangladesh.Kungiyar Mukti Bahini, kungiyar gwagwarmayar ‘yan daba da ta hada da sojan Bengali, ‘yan sanda, da fararen hula, sun mayar da martani ga tashin hankalin ta hanyar kaddamar da yakin neman zabe a kan sojojin Pakistan.Wannan yunƙurin 'yantarwar ya sami gagarumar nasara a farkon watanni.Sojojin Pakistan sun sake samun galaba a lokacin damina, amma ‘yan tawayen Bengali, wadanda suka hada da ayyuka kamar Operation Jackpot da sojojin ruwa na Pakistan da kuma wasu nau’o’in rundunar sojin saman Bangladesh na asali, sun yi yaki sosai.Indiya ta shiga rikicin ne a ranar 3 ga Disamba, 1971, bayan wani harin da jiragen saman Pakistan suka kai musu a arewacin Indiya.An yi yakin Indo-Pakistan ta bangarori biyu.Tare da fifikon iska a gabas da ci gaba da sauri daga Rundunar Sojojin Mukti Bahini da sojojin Indiya, Pakistan ta mika wuya a Dhaka a ranar 16 ga Disamba, 1971, wanda ke nuna mika wuya mafi girma na sojoji tun yakin duniya na biyu .A Gabashin Pakistan, an gudanar da ayyukan soji da dama da kuma hare-hare ta sama don murkushe rashin biyayyar jama'a bayan dage zaben 1970.Sojojin Pakistan, da ke samun goyon bayan mayakan Islama irin su Razakars, Al-Badr, da Al-Shams, sun aikata ta'asar da suka hada da kisan jama'a, kora, da fyade na kisan kiyashi kan fararen hula na Bengali, masu hankali, tsirarun addinai, da ma'aikata dauke da makamai.Babban birnin Dhaka ya fuskanci kisan kiyashi da dama ciki har da jami'ar Dhaka.Rikicin kabilanci ya kuma barke tsakanin 'yan Bengali da Biharis, lamarin da ya kai ga kimanin 'yan gudun hijira na Bengali miliyan 10 da suka tsere zuwa Indiya da kuma miliyan 30 da suka rasa matsugunansu.Yakin ya sauya yanayin yanayin siyasar Kudancin Asiya sosai, inda Bangladesh ta zama kasa ta bakwai mafi yawan al'umma a duniya.Rikicin ya kasance wani muhimmin al'amari a cikin yakin cacar baka , wanda ya shafi manyan kasashe kamar Amurka , Tarayyar Soviet , da Sin .Mafi yawan kasashe mambobin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya sun amince da Bangladesh a matsayin kasa mai cin gashin kanta a shekarar 1972.