Bangladesh was created on Dec. 16, 1971, in what was previously called East Pakistan. Up to 3 million people died in a nine-month war that ended that day with Pakistan's surrender.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Shafiqul Islam was studying business at Dhaka College in 1971 when a bloody and brutal war for independence ravaged Bangladesh. After undergoing guerrilla training in ...

More than 36 years after Bangladesh won independence through a bloody war that killed 3 million people, commanders and veterans of the conflict gathered in Dhaka on Friday to demand trial of ...

Bangladesh gained independence 50 years ago. The country emerged from a brutal liberation war against Pakistan — Bangladesh was part of Pakistan from 1947 to 1971 — and faced nearly insurmountable ...

Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders on Sunday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official said, in a move likely to draw an angry ...

Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have demanded an end to a quota that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971.

During the Liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971 most of the people of the nation supported the fight for independence from Pakistan except for a few groups being the fifth column. Jamaat-e-Islami is ...

The war ended in December 1971 with Pakistan’s defeat. Mr. Rahman became the leader of independent Bangladesh, but he suspended democracy in 1974 and was assassinated in 1975.

On March 26, 1971, Bangladesh declared independence, sparking the nine-month war. Pakistan launched a military operation to stop the move to independence, while India joined on the side of what is ...

Born in war, Bangladesh marks 50 years of independence by: JULHAS ALAM and KRUTIKA PATHI, Associated Press Posted: Mar 23, 2021 / 10:16 PM PDT Updated: Mar 23, 2021 / 10:34 PM PDT ...