Although the diplomatic relations established following the mutual recognition extended to each other in 1974, (Ahmar, 2003) the bitterness of the past and the memories of 1971 civil war in East Pakistan continued to haunt the bilateral relations of two independent states Pakistan and Bangladesh, ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Pakistan and Bangladesh are the top two countries where funds have been barred from repatriating sales revenues to airlines by government controls by the end of October 2024, according to International Air Transport Association data. Governments have blocked 1.7 billion dollars of fun...
The Bangladesh Liberation War was an armed conflict pitting West Pakistan against East Pakistan (two halves of one country) and India that resulted in the secession of East Pakistan to become the independent nation of Bangladesh. The war broke out on 26 March 1971 as army units directed by ...
Bangladesh's High Commissioner to Pakistan Tarik Ahsan, in his welcome speech,recalled the dream of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of establishing a 'Sonar Bangla' that would be a country of peace and prosperity for all citizens. Bangladesh High Commission holds 4th ...
The 1971 conflict mired Pakistan in a bitter civil war and brutal stuggle both within its own country and against neighboring India. Backed by the Soviet Union and the United States, the 1971 war was fought over territories of East Pakistan, which then seceded to become Bangladesh. Through a ...
US Election and Bangladesh October 19, 2024 Deepti Bista 0 Published in The Nation (Pakistan) on 15 October 2024 by M A Hossain [link to original] Posted on October 19, 2024. This post appeared on […]US Delegation Visit: A New Chapter in Bangladesh-US Relations? September 24, ...
A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced a senior member of the opposition to death for his involvement in the killing of hundreds of people during the county's independence war against Pakistan in 1971. The verdict against Salauddin Quader Chowdhury came as he stood in th...
New Delhi: Pakistan and Bangladesh have asked India cotton growers to fulfil their cotton supply contracts, which were signed before last month's export ban. They wrote to the government of India respectively and said that the future supply of cotton to Pakistan and Bangladesh should not be dist...
In 1971, when the Bangladesh Liberation War broke out between East and West Pakistan, the Biharis sided with West Pakistan, opposed the Bengali demand of making Bengali an official language, and chose to maintain Urdu as the state language as for many Bihari, it was their mother tongue. 19...
At least 300 people were killed in the single largest bout of violence since Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistan in 1971. The movement was hailed as a Gen Z revolution, spurred by young Bangladeshis' anger at years of jobless growth, allegations of kleptocracy, a...