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Daily Mashriq was founded in 1963 by Inayat Ullah Khan. [3] Its name translates to 'East' in Urdu. [1]In 1964, the newspaper was nationalized by the military regime of Ayub Khan and subsequently, it became part of the National Press Trust (NPT), which was established to manage nationalized independent newspapers in order to deter free media. [1]
The East Pakistan Students' League (Bengali: পূর্ব পাকিস্তান ছাত্রলীগ, Urdu: مشرقی پاکستان سٹوڈنٹس لیگ) was founded in 1948 following the independence of Pakistan to support the political activities and campaigns of the Muslim League in electoral politics. [1]
The tense relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, (Mujib), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan. The party won 160 of the 162 seats allotted to East Pakistan, and thus a majority of the 300 ...
The students of East Pakistan opposed this report and agitation was started by Dhaka College students. [4] In 1962, they decided to observe the Language Movement Day 21 February and the birth day of Rabindranath Tagore as a way to oppose that report. [6] The West Pakistani Government arrested Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy on 30 January 1962.
The Muslim League and most other advocates of Pakistan had demanded a single state of Pakistan consisting of the British Indian provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then Northwest Frontier Province), Sindh, Balochistan and Bengal, and sought the Urdu language to be the only official language and lingua franca of Muslims. [1]
Bilateral relations between the two wings grew strained over the lack of official recognition for the Bengali language, democracy, regional autonomy, disparity between the two wings, ethnic discrimination, and the central government's weak and inefficient relief efforts after the 1970 Bhola cyclone, which had affected millions in East Pakistan ...
Pakistan would support all efforts to prevent war escalating in the Middle East, its foreign ministry said on Friday, as fears grow of a wider conflict involving Israel and Iran.
Their language, Bengali, like Urdu, belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family, but the two languages have different scripts (Bengali being written in the Brahmic Bengali-Assamese script while Urdu using the Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script) and literary traditions. [2]