'''باكستان الشرقية''' ([[لغة أردوية|بالأردوية]]: '''مشرقي پاكستان''' ،[[لغة بنغالية|بالبنغالية]]: পূর্ব পাকিস্তান '''پوربور پاكستان''') هي ولاية كانت تابعة [[باكستان|للجهمورية الإسلامية الباكستانية]] عاصمتها [[دكا]] وتبلغ مساحتها نحو 147,570 كيلومتر مربع.<ref>{{citeمرجع bookكتاب |lastالأخير=Ali |firstالأول=Tariq |yearالسنة=1983 |titleالعنوان=Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State |publisherالناشر=Penguin Books |pageالصفحة=98–99 |isbn=0-14-02-2401-7 |quote=The defeat of the Pakistan army traumatized West Pakistan and considerably dented the prestige of the armed services ... The defeat suffered in Dacca and the break-up of the country traumatized the population from top to bottom.}}</ref><ref>{{citeمرجع bookكتاب|lastالأخير=Nayar|firstالأول=Kuldip|titleالعنوان=Scoop! : Inside Stories from Partition to the Present|date=1 October 2006|publisherالناشر=HarperCollins|locationالمكان=United Kingdom|isbn=978-8172236434|pagesالصفحات=213 pages|urlالمسار=http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/2006/december/bhuttonmujib.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Langewiesche |first=William |date=November 2005 |title=The Wrath of Khan |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/11/the-wrath-of-khan/4333/3/ |magazine=The Atlantic |accessdate=31 July 2016 |quote=Thirty-four years later it may seem obvious that the loss of Bangladesh was a blessing—but it is still not seen so today in Pakistan, and it was certainly not seen so at the time ... One month after the surrender of Pakistan's army in Bangladesh [Bhutto] called a secret meeting of about seventy Pakistani scientists ... He asked them for a nuclear bomb, and they responded enthusiastically.}}</ref> شُكلت الولاية في [[14 أغسطس]] [[1947]] بعد استقلال باكستان عن [[المملكة المتحدة]] وظلت تابعة لباكستان حتى [[26 مارس]] [[1971]] عندما أعلنت انفصالها واستقلالها عن باكستان وأصبحت [[بنغلاديش]].
