July 11, 1971
- The first conference (July 11-17) of Sector Commanders begin at the office Bhaban at 8-No Theatre Road in Kolkata. Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed presides over the first session. Different problems of freedom fighters and the future plan of the war are discussed there.
- A fierce shooting take place when a team of freedom fighters ambush a Pakistan military team heading towards Miabazar. Pakistani army forced to retreat after four hour-long fighting that left 10-15 soldiers injured.
- Freedom fighters led by Lt Shamsul Arefin attack Kapilmunir Rajakars camp in Paikgachha.
- Pakistan army ambush Muktibahini’s Shalda river camp at 8:00am, leaving Fourth Bengal Habildar Tajul Mia and Constable Abdur Razzak critically injured. Besides two civilian are killed and eight others injured.
- Muktibahini hurl grenades at a patrolling team of Pakistan soldiers killing all of them — two army and two policemen — in front of Chandpur power station at 6:30am.
- East Pakistan Red Cross chairman Justice AKM Nurul Islam returns to Dhaka from Geneva visit.
- Henry Kissinger secretly retuns to Pakistan concluding his China visit and holds an inclusive meeting with Yahya Khan. He later heads for Tehran on the way of Paris.
- West Pakistan PDP president Nawabjada Nasrullah Khan, in a statement at Lahore, terms Peoples Party Chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s interview with an Iran newspaper sad. Bhutto tells the daily that the government should hold dialogue with Awami League and its leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on a settlement-based formula. Nasrullah Khan adds that it will be on the anti-Pakistani interests if any one tries to hold talk with the illegal Awami League.
Source: Bangladesh Liberation War Museum