1971.03.10, Bangabandhu, Newspaper (Times), মাওলানা ভাসানী
Left Pledges support for Sheikh Mujibur From Paul Martin Dacca, March 9 Maulana Abdul Bhasani, leader of East Pakistan radical leftists. today promised to support Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in his struggle against the military leadership of Pakistan. However, Maulana...
1971.03.10, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Telegraph)
The End Of The Old Pakistan David Loshak Dacca. Jinnah’s concept of a nation dedicated to Islam – fathered out of India’s independence, born of the tumult of partition, brought hobbling by a generation of inept politicians and blinkered generals to a...
1971.03.12, Newspaper (Guardian), Yahya Khan
Yahya Tries To Stop Split S. R. Ghauri Karachi, March 11, Fast President Yahya Khan has made yet another effort to prevent a violent split between the two wings of Pakistan by proposing urgent discussions between himself and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the leader of the...
1971.03.12, Awami League, Newspaper (Guardian), Political Steps of Bangabandhu
E. Pakistan Shows Strain Martin Adeney Dacca, March 11. The economy of East Pakistan is beginning to show severe signs of strain as a result of the restrictions on normal activity imposed by Sheikh Mujib’s Awami League which is acting as the virtual government...
1971.03.12, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Statesman)
Divided Pakistan Francis Hope When a political bomb goes off, the world wonders why peace endured so long. East Pakistan, like Northern Ireland, has been an anomaly for years. But it was a quiet anomaly. Now it seems surprising, even miraculously, that it ever...
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...
1971.12.15, Independence, Newspaper (Hindustan Standard)
All victims of a military clique From Somen Mukherjee, HARDINGE BRIDGE, DEC. 14.- The clattering of Pakistani rifles across the Padma does not convey any sense anymore. The stone of their strength has rolled away. “Now upon the first day of the week very early...
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...
