1971.08.28, BD-Govt, Country (England), Newspaper (Times)
Bangladesh Mission Opened in Britain In his inaugural speech yesterday Mr. Chowdhury said that West Pakistan had dominated his country for 23 long years. Now the army of Yahya Khan had resorted to loot rape and arson and was still perpetrating genocide. He said the...
1971.09.11, Awami League, Newspaper (Times)
Five-party group formed to coordinate Bengal fight The Bengalis struggle for independence by the conservative Awami League and three communist political organizations which joined forces in a broad based Consulting Committee at a secret meeting of Bengal leaders on...
1971.09.24, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
BanglaDesh leaders ready for international relief operation if the safeguards are adequate From Peter Hazelhurst Inchamati River, on the Indo-Pakistan border, Sept 23. The provisional government of BanglaDesh has agreed to support any proposal under which both the...
1971.11.03, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Bengali Diplomats Stage A Walk-Out New Delhi, November 2. Ten East Pakistani employers left the Pakistan High Commission here with their families today to join the Bangladesh movement. They claimed that they had been beaten up by West Pakistan members at the High...
1971.11.03, Newspaper (Times)
More Pakistanis defect From Our own Correspondent, Delhi, Nov 2 After a brief scuffle with their West Pakistani colleagues, most of the Bengali members of the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi defected to India today. Eleven Bengalis on the clerical staff of the...
1971.04.19, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Pakistan Envoy Flies Rebel Flag. Calcutta, April 18. Mr. M. Hossain Ali today renounced his post of Pakistan’s Deputy High Commissioner to India and hoisted the green, red and gold flag of Bangladesh (Bengali nation) at his mission here….As he spoke. A...
1971.04.19, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Rebel Commander Admits ‘Odds Are Against Us’ Michael Hornsby Calcutta, April 18. The “Democratic Republic of Bangladesh” was proclaimed in the dappled sunlight of a mango grove on Saturday less than a mile inside the East Pakistan border. The choice of a site so...
1971.04.26, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Giving up all for BanglaDesh A former Pakistan diplomat in Calcutta explains why he changed his allegiance Calcutta April 25-Mr. Hossain Ali, the former Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan who is now “head of the BanglaDesh mission” in Calcutta, has said that his...
1971.06.02, District (Dhaka), Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Bengal Rebels Send Un Evidence of Terror Attack On Dacca Peter Hazelhurst Evidence has become available which appears to confirm that the Pakistan Army’s operations in Dacca on March 26 were part of a well-organized Plan devised to terrorize the inhabitants into...
1971.07.09, Newspaper (Times)
Historical Hatred Between The Rival Hindu And Muslim Communities Self-Defeating Slaughter In East Pakistan Michael Horns by Dacca, East Pakistan. President Yahya Khan’s attempt to stem by armed force the rising tide of separatist feeling among the Bengalis of...