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On 16 December 1971, the territory of East Pakistan was handed over to the Indian Army under the surrender agreement from West Pakistan and in the Simla Agreement became the newly independent state of Bangladesh. The Eastern Command, civilian institutions, and paramilitary forces were disbanded in the following months.
East Pakistan should have a separate military or paramilitary force, and Navy headquarters should be in East Pakistan. [9] Mujib's six points ran directly counter to President Ayub's plan for greater national integration. Ayub's anxieties were shared by many West Pakistanis, who feared that Mujib's plan would divide Pakistan by encouraging ...
The 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising saw the charges in the Agartala conspiracy case being dropped. [5] In a party meeting on 5 December 1969, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proposed to name East Pakistan "Bangladesh" if it became independent. [9]
The western zone was popularly (and, for a period, also officially) termed West Pakistan and the eastern zone (modern-day Bangladesh) was initially termed East Bengal and later East Pakistan. Although the two zones' population was close to equal, political power was concentrated in West Pakistan, and it was widely perceived that East Pakistan ...
A. K. Fazlul Huq, the Premier of United Bengal who moved the Lahore Resolution and subsequently became the Governor of East Pakistan. Dhaka was the scene of a meeting of Muslim leaders in late 1906. They created a party for Muslims and declared its loyalty to the British, believing that the British could best protect the interests of Muslims ...
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.
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 ...
On this day, in the presence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Paltan Maidan, under the banner of Student Struggle Council, Shajahan Siraj, the then General Secretary of Chhatra League announced the independence manifesto of Bangladesh. [29] It declared East Pakistan to become an independent and sovereign state called Bangladesh as well as defining ...