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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 .
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 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 ...
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 ...
In 1947, East Bengal became the most populous province in the Dominion of Pakistan and was renamed East Pakistan, with Dhaka as the legislative capital. The Bengali Language Movement in 1952, the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état , and the 1970 Pakistani general election spurred Bengali nationalism and pro-democracy movements.
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 ...
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.