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East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma , with a coastline on the Bay of Bengal .
The Indian Army, on the other hand, was aided by East Pakistan's Mukti Bahini (Liberation Force), the freedom fighters who managed to keep the Pakistan Army at bay in many areas. On 16 December 1971, the Pakistan army wing in East Pakistan led by Niazi surrendered and Bangladesh was liberated.
Pakistan, which Bangladesh had gained independence from in the 1971 war, didn't recognise the country until it was pressured by other Muslim-majority nations. Bangladesh's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , was kept imprisoned by Pakistani authorities (even after the end of war) before being released in January 1972.
Bangladesh, formerly known as East Pakistan, emerged as an independent nation after a war with West Pakistan (now Pakistan) in 1971. ... of the Nation" in Bangladesh, became the country’s first ...
The 1952 events caused the people of East Pakistan to abandon the Muslim League. [133] In East Pakistan's 1954 provincial elections, the League captured only 7 out of the 390 seats. [134] The United Front won the elections. Until 1956, when the state declared that both Bengali and Urdu would be state languages, the language movement continued ...
Exporting tea via the nearby Chittagong port was still an option, but after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, all transit traffic was switched off by Pakistan. [63] East Pakistan became independent Bangladesh in 1971, but cross-border railway traffic did not resume until 2003.
On 10 March 1970, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman demanded autonomy for East Pakistan based on the Six Point program of the Awami League. [5] Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani ends a public event with the slogan East Pakistan Zindabad on 23 November. [5] 1970 Bhola cyclone killed 300 to 500 thousand people in East Pakistan. [6]
Bangladesh, [a] officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, [b] is a country in South Asia.It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and among the most densely populated with a population exceeding 170 million within an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi).