The Shaheed Minar, located near Dhaka Medical College, commemorates the Language Movement of 1952.
A personal narrative
Narrative ON The fall of Dhaka black day of Pakistani history:
By; AsgharAli Mubarak
December 16, 1971 was black day of Pakistani history. We had just turned of the Radio after the ritual of Gen. (Tiger) Niazi surrendering East Pakistan to an Indian commander in the evening news when phone rang.
From previous experience I must admit that our compatriots had not been inclined to take our “leftist” ideas seriously.
we still debate what went wrong in 1971, we might assess the current geopolitical changes to make sense of the things that surround us now and develop our own vision in the context of what we can learn from the 1971 war
Thirty nine years after East Pakistan went through a blood bath and emerged as an independent nation of Bangladesh, we now live in a different kind of world. Since the two archrivals India and…
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