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3 days ago · It glosses over the massacres of minority Hindus by Yahya Khan’s army and paramilitary collaborators in East Pakistan—a tragedy that even today with rising Islamic fundamentalism and ongoing attacks on minorities. unpacks the horrors of 1971 through a series of interviews with those who know Bangladesh’s birth story intimately.
4 days ago · When General Yahya Khan surveyed the devastation and became fully convinced of defeat and the possibility that nothing could be recovered, and that what little was left was in danger, they sent a special plane to bring me back to Pakistan.
11 hours ago · As Pakistan, led by its military dictator Yahya Khan, was on a fanatic rampage in East Pakistan, slaughtering, raping and burning Bengalis, India had moved its troops into the neighbouring eastern enclave after lakhs of refugees crossed over to India.
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2 days ago · President Yahya Khan flew to Dacca to hold talks with Mujibur Rahman, then leader of the Awami League, in March and was later joined by Bhutto, whose party had secured the second-largest share of seats (81 out of 300) in the general elections.
16 hours ago · Yahya Khan's dictatorship collapsed and gave way to Bhutto, who took the opportunity to rise to power. [116] [117] General Niazi , who surrendered along with 93,000 troops, was viewed with suspicion and contempt upon his return to Pakistan.
5 days ago · Yahya Khan was called to mediate between Mujib and Bhutto, and in the meantime their respective parties addressed the dilemma and sought still another avenue that might produce a compromise solution.
5 days ago · Field Marshal Ayub Khan presided over a decade-long period of disparity governing relations between East and West Pakistan; General Yahya Khan repudiated the results of the 1970 elections and had the army go on a genocidal rampage in a soon-to-be Bangladesh.
