1971.04.03, Genocide, Newspaper (Time)
Road to Dacca airport ‘a mass grave Singapore, April 20 “The road from my home to Dacca airport was a mass grave.” a British woman refugee from the East Pakistan capital said tonight, claiming that reports of 300,000 deaths in the conflict were no exaggeration. “The...
1971.03.26, District (Dhaka), Newspaper (Time)
Shots in Dacca as E Pakistan drifts nearer to secession From Peter Hazelhurst Karachi, March 25 Pakistan Plunged headlong on towards political chaos, violence and secession today when it became obvious that President Yahya Khan’s courageous attempts to end the...
1971.03.26, District (Dhaka), Newspaper (Time)
Dacca talks fail Pakistan today appeared to have plunged deeper into crisis with the breakdown of the talks between President Yahya Khan and the East Pakistan leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Evidently the talks failed when Sheikh Mujib who has been ruling East Pakistan...
1971.03.27, Newspaper (Time), Political Steps of Bangabandhu
Heavy fighting as Shaikh Mujibur declares E Pakistan independent Civil war raged in the eastern region of Pakistan last night after the provincial leader, Shaikh Mujibur Rahman, had proclaimed the region an independent republic. President Yahya Khan outlawed the...
1971.03.22, District (Dhaka), Newspaper (Time), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Troops train guns on angry Bengalis as Mr Bhutto arrives for Dacca talks From Peter Hazelburst Karachi, March 21 Mr. Z. A. Bhutto, the leader of West Pakistan, met President Yahya Khan in the East Pakistan capital of Dacca tonight for crucial talks on the...
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...
1971.03.06, Newspaper (Time), Political Steps of Bangabandhu
East Pakistan Leader Could Declare UDI Peter Hazelhurst Karachi, East Pakistan leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is left with two courses of action as the country totters on the edge of disintegration : he can make a unilateral declaration of independence or he can call...
1971.12.20, Independence, Newspaper (Time)
TIME MAGAZINE, DECEMBER 20, 1971 BANGLADESH: OUT OF WAR, A NATION IS BORN “Jai Bangla; Jai Bangla:” From the banks of the great Ganges and the broad Brahmaputra, from the emerald fields and mustard-colored hills of the countryside, from the countless...
1971.11.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Time)
TIME MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 29, 1971 INDIA NOT IF, BUT WHEN When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi returned home from her three week tour of Western nations last week, one of the first things she did was to go before her hawkish Parliament and plead for patience toward her...
1971.05.24, Newspaper (Time)
TIME, MAY 24, 1971 PAKISTAN POLISHING A TARNISHED IMAGE “We have been maligned,” declared the Pakistani armed forces intelligence chief. Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan. The general’s complaint, delivered to half a. dozen foreign journalists in...
