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East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Date: ... Time magazine dubbed General Tikka Khan the "Butcher of Bengal ... Independent researchers have estimated the death toll to ...
He missed the wedding of his niece, Salma Sobhan (Pakistan's first woman barrister), because of his detention. [9] In 1963, Suhrawardy died in Beirut due to a heart attack. After his death, the Awami League veered towards Bengali nationalism, the 6-point movement, East Pakistani secession and ultimately Bangladeshi independence in 1971 ...
Tikka Khan was born on 10 February 1915 [1] into a Punjabi family of the Janjua Rajput clan [10] in the Jochha Mamdot village of Kahuta Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, British India (now Punjab, Pakistan).
The death toll from a large blast at a mosque in Pakistan rose to 59 on Saturday as the government vowed to find the perpetrators and accused India's intelligence agency of being involved. Friday ...
The neutral and widely accepted death toll figure is around 5000. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] According to Governor Burrows, "the immediate occasion for the outbreak of the disturbances was the looting of a Bazar [market] in Ramganj police station following the holding of a mass meeting."
The death toll from a suicide bombing in Pakistan that targeted a hard-line religious group's political rally has risen to 63 while 123 are still under treatment, a government official said on ...
Date Location Deaths Notes 1971 Bangladesh genocide: starting 25 March 1971 – 16 December 1971 Various places in Bangladesh 200,000–3,000,000 1971 Dhaka University massacre: 25 March 1971 University of Dhaka: 310+ 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals: 25 March-14 December 1971 1,111 [1] Shankharipara massacre: 26 March 1971 Shankaripara, Dhaka
The death toll from Pakistan's deadliest bandit attack on police rose to 12 after one of the wounded officers died in a hospital, as police pursued suspects in the eastern province of Punjab ...