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Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bengali: শহীদ বুদ্ধিজীবী দিবস, romanized: Śôhīd Buddhijībī Dibôs) is observed on 14 December in Bangladesh to commemorate the large number of Bangladeshi intellectuals killed by Al-Badr [1] the collaborators of Pakistani forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War, particularly on 25 March and 14 December 1971.
Sheikh Maqbool Orakzai (died 9 July 2015), [1] known as Shahidullah Shahid and later as Abu Umar Maqbool al Khurasani, [2] was a Pakistani Islamic militant who had senior roles in both the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Islamic State's province in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Sheikh Jamal, second lieutenant in the East Bengal Regiment; Sheikh Rehana, politician; Sheikh Hasina, former prime minister of Bangladesh; Sheikh Russel, youngest son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman; Qudratullah Sheikh, Zamindar in Faridpur Mahakumar who defeated the British in court, ancestor of Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani
On 25 March 1971, the Pakistan army launched an extermination campaign, codenamed Operation Searchlight, against the Bengali people in East Pakistan. [2] A number of professors, physicians and journalists were abducted from their homes by armed Pakistani soldiers and their local collaborators, and executed during this operation and its aftermath.
Long-time Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina had not resigned as prime minister before fleeing this week to India as anti-government protesters marched on her official residence, her son and adviser ...
Shahidullah was born on 10 July 1885 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Peyara in the erstwhile Bengal Presidency's 24 Parganas district. His father, Mafizuddin Ahmed, was the guardian of a mazar, and his mother, Marguba Khatun, was a housewife. Shahidullah passed his school final entrance exam in 1904 from Howrah Zilla School.
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