In a secretive manner, President Yahya Khan boarded a Pakistani International Airlines flight in the evening at around 7:30 and took off for Karachi. All the arrangements for what would infamously become known as “Operation Searchlight” were completed. Before stepping into the flight, the army high command was instructed to commence operations a...
Bangladesh is observing ‘Genocide Day’ today commemorating brutalities of the Pakistan army during Operation Searchlight, launched on the night of March 25 in 1971, as a last resort to try and suppress the will of the people of what would become, in less than nine months, an independent Bangladesh. On the Black Night of March 25 in ...
Fifty years ago on 25 March 1971, all hopes for a political solution to the crisis in Pakistan lay in ruins. A day earlier, on 24 March, sensing the sinister intentions of the Yahya Khan junta, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had instructed his aides to propose to the regime that a wholesale transformation now needed to be brought into the con...
Introduction: The controversy over independence declaration The unhealthy controversy over the declaration of Bangladesh independence is still nagging the nation about four decades after the War of Independence in 1971. We have grown weary of listening to the parade of the same old debate on Mujib- Zia dichotomy, especially on the independence ...
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