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Bihari representatives claim that 500,000 Biharis were killed, while the Pakistani government's "white paper" and the US Consul estimated at least 64,000-66,000 deaths. [10] [11] The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ruled Biharis eligible for Bangladesh citizenship in 1972, and about 500,000 chose repatriation to Pakistan.
Bihari Muslims make up a significant minority in Pakistan under the diverse community of Muhajirs (lit. ' migrants ' ), and largely began arriving in the country following the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which led to the secession of East Pakistan from the Pakistani union as the independent state of Bangladesh .
The first among them are Bihari Muslims. Although, most of this population belonged to the Bihar Province of British India, there are many from other Indian states such as West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and U.P. (United Provinces). [9] There are still others, who had settled in what is now known as Bangladesh in the late 19th century.
Bihari Muslims, Pakistani Army The Golahat massacre ( Bengali : গোলাহাট গণহত্যা ) was a massacre of 437 emigrating Hindu merchants and businessmen of Marwari ethnicity in Saidpur , East Pakistan on June 13, 1971.
The Bangladesh genocide [a] was the ethnic cleansing of Bengalis, ... Bihari Muslims, many of whom were fleeing the violence that took place during partition ...
Bangladesh is the fourth-largest Muslim-populated country. Muslims are the predominant community of the country and they form the majority of the population in all eight divisions of Bangladesh. The overwhelming majority of Bangladeshi Muslims are Bengali Muslims at 98 percent, but a small segment about 2 percent of them are Bihari Muslims and ...
The head of Bangladesh's interim government, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, on Sunday called for a fast-tracked third-country resettlement of Rohingya Muslims living in the south Asian ...
Biharis can be found throughout India, and in the neighbouring countries of Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. During the Partition of India in 1947, many Bihari Muslims migrated to East Bengal (renamed to East Pakistan; later became Bangladesh).