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Bookmark or Share- ‘We have to tread warily’: East Pakistan, India and the ...On 9 December 1971, in a confidential memo, he emphasised the need for India to continue to ‘tread warily’: it had no territorial designs on East Pakistan, would not use the opportunity of Pakistan’s weakness to attack in Kashmir, and would pull its troops out quickly from East Pakistan.
- East Pakistan - WikipediaEast Pakistan was the eastern provincial exclave of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, covering the territory of the modern country Bangladesh. The province was restructured and renamed from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, with a coastline on the Bay of Bengal.
- The Bangladesh Liberation War | OriginsEric A. Strahorn. December 16, 1971 marked the end of the Bangladesh Liberation War, a short-lived conflict between India and Pakistan that established the People’s Republic of Bangladesh from the territory of the former province of East Pakistan. Although the war is best remembered for its dramatic alteration of South Asia’s geopolitical ...
- Bangladesh war: The article that changed history - BBC NewsA Sunday Times article by reporter Anthony Mascarenhas exposed for the first time the scale of the Pakistani army's brutal campaign to suppress its breakaway eastern province in 1971, reports Mark ...
- The Genocide the U.S. Can't Remember, But Bangladesh Can't ...Millions were killed in what was then known as East Pakistan, but Cold War geopolitics left defenseless Muslims vulnerable
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