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Operation Searchlight was a military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971. [8] [9] Pakistan retrospectively justified the operation on the basis of anti-Bihari violence carried out en masse by the Bengalis earlier that month.
Today, bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan are considered to be cordial. [citation needed] The two countries are both founding members of SAARC, as well as members of the Developing 8 Countries, the OIC and the Commonwealth of Nations. Both are classified as Next Eleven emerging economies. Bangladesh has a High Commission in ...
Bangladesh Air Force destroys Pakistani oil depots. 4 December – India officially invades East Pakistan. 6 December – India becomes the first country to recognize the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra radio station becomes Bangladesh Betar; 7 December – Liberation of Jessore, Sylhet and the Moulovi Bazar.
On 19 March, soldiers of Pakistan Army from East Pakistan and West Pakistan had a small skirmish at the Gazipur Ordnance Factory after the East Bengal Regiment refused to fire at crowds of protesting Bengalis. [5] On 24 March, soldiers of East Pakistan Rifles raised the flag of independent Bangladesh in Jessore District. [5]
Today, Area 51 is still very much in use. According to Google Earth, new construction and expansions are continuously happening. On most early mornings, eagle-eyed visitors can spot strange lights ...
Imran Khan’s party accuses government of ‘massacare’ of protesters after brutal crackdown
Statesmen of the early decades of Pakistan, with Pakistan’s founding father and future Governor-General, Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the centre of the bottom row. Three future Prime ministers can also be seen with Khawaja Nazimuddin to Jinnah’s left, I.I. Chundrigar on the rightmost of the middle row, and Liaquat Ali Khan on Chundrigar’s left.
Deadly protests by thousands of students in Bangladesh against quotas in government jobs has brought focus to a history of violence in a country born out of a war between India and Pakistan in ...