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Benazir Bhutto, September 2004. Bhutto had opted for self-exile while her court cases for corruption remained pending in foreign and Pakistani courts. [12] After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returned to Karachi on 18 October 2007 to prepare for the 2008 national elections, allowed by a possible power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf.
Mohammad S. Hamdani – Muslim Pakistani American medical student who was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks while rescuing victims at the World Trade Center [120] [121] [122] Riffat Hassan – theologian and Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur'an [123] Sky Metalwala – child missing from the Seattle area. since 2011
Until then, the Pakistan Army secretly trained a group of Pakistan-supporting madrasa, college and university students. This group was named Al Badar. At the verge of the December war Al-Badar members came out and selectively killed Bengali professors, doctors, engineers and many other intellectuals.
There is some dispute over where Kansi was taken next, U.S. authorities claim it was a holding facility run by Pakistani authorities, [4] while Pakistani sources claim it was the U.S. embassy in Islamabad [12] –before being flown to the U.S. on June 17 in a C-141 transport. [4] [14]
Chuknagar massacre (Bengali: চুকনগর গণহত্যা) was a massacre of Bengali Hindus committed by the Pakistan Army and local collaborators during the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971. [1] The massacre took place on 20 May 1971 at Dumuria in Khulna [2] and it was one of the largest massacres during the war. [3]
Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi HJ & Bar SPk SK MC (1915 – 1 February 2004) commonly known as General Niazi was a Pakistani military officer. During the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, he commanded the Pakistani Eastern Command in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
CHICAGO — The names of four fallen officers, including one who died more than 100 years ago, were added Wednesday to the memorial wall at Gold Star Families Memorial and Park, just east of ...
As the war neared its end and Pakistani surrender became apparent, the Pakistan Army made a final effort to eliminate the intelligentsia of the new nation of Bangladesh. [5] On 14 December 1971, over 200 Bengali intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were abducted from their homes in Dhaka by ...