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Dec 15, 2023 · On 16 December 1971, around 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to the Indian Army in Dhaka. This day was since then observed as Vijay Diwas, the word...
Dec 18, 2021 · By Sheikh Fakhar-e-Alam. December 18, 2021. The creation of Bangladesh is one of the most sensitive and tragic chapters in the history of Pakistan. On Dec 16, 1971, Pakistani troops laid down their arms and surrendered for secession of East Pakistan. It is considered the darkest day in our history.
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- Bangladesh: The Liberation War
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- Pakistan: The Forgotten Conflict
The struggle for Bengali rights started shortly after Pakistan gained independence as a country with two incontiguous territories known as West Pakistan (today’s Pakistan) and East Pakistan (today’s Bangladesh). The refusal to accept Bengali as a state language of Pakistan in the early years after Partition, economic disparity between the two parts...
In India and Pakistan, 1971 may not be as actively remembered but it remains central to how both nations view themselves and each other. In India, the war is fondly recalled as the nation’s finest win, a testament to its military prowess and superiority, and as revenge for Pakistan having “broken” India in 1947. Having lost the Indo-Sino war in 196...
In Pakistan, the state has resorted to selective forgetting of what happened in 1971. Perceived as a humiliating defeat, the war is brushed over in textbooks and there is little acknowledgement of the military oppression and the resulting atrocities in East Pakistan. What is hailed as liberation in Bangladesh is awkwardly recalled by Pakistanis as ...
"Explore the poignant history of Dhaka Fall on December 16, 1971, a pivotal moment during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Join us in commemorating the resilie...
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, also known as the third India-Pakistan war, was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 December 1971.
16 December 1971. Although the international media, scholarly researchers, and some policymakers have highlighted the atrocities committed by the Pakistan military against the Bengalis in 1971, calling it “selective genocide,”19 “the bloodbath in
May 6, 2016 · Abstract. Both the Bangladesh state and society are yet to settle the questions over and narratives related to the Liberation War of 1971. Broadly, there are two groups with contradictory and conflicting interpretations of the events related to that war. This has also led to the mushrooming of militant groups in the country.
