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The movement reached its climax in 1952, when on 21 February, the police fired on protesting students and civilians, causing several deaths. The day is revered in Bangladesh as the Language Movement Day. In memory of the deaths, UNESCO declared 21 February International Mother Language Day in November 1999.
The Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) recognized Bangladesh in 1974. [ 4] Today, bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan are considered to be cordial. The two countries are both founding members of SAARC, as well as ...
Bangladesh Armed Forces. The Mukti Bahini, [ a] also known as the Bangladesh Forces, was the guerrilla resistance movement consisting of the Bangladeshi military, paramilitary and civilians during the Bangladesh Liberation War that transformed East Pakistan into Bangladesh in 1971. [ 2] They were initially called the Mukti Fauj.
The Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report (or War Enquiry Report [1]) contains the government of Pakistan 's official and classified papers of the events leading up to secession of East Pakistan and the 1971 war with India. [2] Hamood ur Rahman Commission was set up by then President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto on 26 December 1971. [2]
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman[ c] (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu[ d] ( lit. 'Friend of Bengal ' ), was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist. As a politician, Mujib had held continuous positions either as Bangladesh's president or as its prime minister from ...
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. The war began with Pakistan's Operation Chengiz Khan ...
The political history of Pakistan ( Urdu: پاکستان کی سیاسی تاريخ) is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders of Pakistan. Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947, when the Presidencies and provinces of British India were divided by the United Kingdom, in a ...
Sectarian violence in Pakistan refers to violence directed against people and places in Pakistan motivated by antagonism toward the target's religious sect. As many as 4,000 Shia (a Muslim minority group) are estimated to have been killed in sectarian attacks in Pakistan between 1987 and 2007, [23] and thousands more Shia have been killed by Salafi extremists from 2008 to 2014, according to ...