1971.03.13, Newspaper (Time), Yahya Khan
General Yayha on his way to E Pakistan Karachi, March 12– President Yahya Khan arrived here today, presumably on his way to Dacca for talks with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, whose de facto control of East Pakistan threatens to tear the country apart. No details of the...
1971.12.14, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Wars
Priests on Pak Army Atrocities in Jessore JESSORE, DEC 13. “The Indian troops are great – They behave a lot better than the Americans when they entered Italy during World War II” a cheerful Italian missionary told newsmen yesterday. The Pakistanis...
1971.12.15, Country (India), Newspaper (Hindustan Standard)
Prize capture The Indian Army on Tuesday had a prize catch of a brigadier, the highest ranking Pakistani officer captured so far in the Bangladesh liberation operations, says PTI. Briefing newsmen in Calcutta on Tuesday night, a spokesman for the Eastern Command named...
1971.12.11, Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Niazi
The general fled leaving his map in the jeep SILIGURI, DEC. 10.- The marked map which was found in the jeep abandoned by Major General Nazir Hussain Shah, GOC of the Pakistani Army, contained a wealth of information, according to a top Indian Army officer here,...
1971.07.27, Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Tikka Khan
Tikka Khan admits blowing up of bridge NEW DELHI, JULY 26- East Bengal Government, Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan, yesterday admitted that the Jhena Bati railway bridge in Comilla district had been dynamited by the Mukti Fauj recently, report agencies. He visited the site of the...
1971.09.30, Country (India), Country (Russia), Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Refugee
Russia fully supports India’s stand on evacuees’ return From SUNIL BASU, MOSCOW, SEPT, 29 – The Soviet Premier, Mr. Kosygin, told Indian newsmen here yesterday that the Soviet Union fully supported Indian’s “just demand” that the...
1971.09.12, Country (India), Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Refugee
Miss Hall, impressed by India’s performance By A Staff Reporter, Miss JKoan Hall, Conservative British MP, said in Calcutta on Saturday that the United Nations should use the agencies it had in its command to alleviate the miseries of refugees from East Bengal....
1971.09.12, Country (Bhutan), Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Refugee
King of Bhutan Pays sudden visit to evacuees camps By A Staff Reporter, The King of Bhutan, Jigme Dorjee Wangchuk, made an unscheduled visit to some of the evacuee camps in West Bengal on Saturday. Later in the evening he told newsmen in Calcutta that the evacuees...
1971.08.18, Kennedy, Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Refugee
Kennedy goes round camps braving rain By A Staff Reporter, The Senator from Massachusetis could not speak. The tiny, emaciated boy died before his eyes and a tired, hungry mother could only look on with tearless eyes. It happened at a Barasat evacuee camp on Wednesday...
