Every time violence spikes in Balochistan, the same slogan reappears: “1971 is repeating.”“Pakistan will lose another wing.”“Bangladesh 2.0.” It spreads like wildfire — emotionally satisfying, historically lazy, strategically hollow. Let’s be blunt. If you think Balochistan today is East Pakistan in 1971, you are not analyzing geopolitics. You are romanticizing collapse. And collapse does not work on nostalgia. It works on structure. Geography: The Detail That Killed Pakistan in 1971 In 1971, Pakistan was a state split in half by India. East and West Pakistan were separated by 1,600 kilometers of hostile territory. No land bridge. No reinforcement corridor. No…