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3 Strategic Thinking Lessons From Field Marshal Manekshaw for Career and Crisis Decisions

Say No When You Mean No, And Mean It PreciselyWhen Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked Manekshaw in April 1971 whether the Indian Army was ready to move into East Pakistan, he said no. Not a diplomatic hedge. Not a promise to try. He listed, in the room, the specific reasons…

Times Life

Abu Zafar obituary

Other lives: Innovative entrepreneur who set up the first Asian-owned printing press in Bradford

The Guardian - UK

Why Pakistan is rushing to mend fences with Bangladesh

Pakistan intensifies outreach to Bangladesh, seeking new partnerships as regional power dynamics shift.

Al Jazeera

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India-Pakistan tensions: A brief history of conflict

For nearly eight decades, India and Pakistan have experienced near-constant tensions.

Al Jazeera

The question for Bangladesh: can it break the spell of its bloodstained history?

Sheikh Hasina has fled and a new interim leader has been named. This is the moment for the country to leave its dynastic politics behind, says writer Salil Tripathi

The Guardian - UK

Bangladesh’s protests explained: What led to PM’s ouster and the challenges that lie ahead

Bangladesh’s embattled prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, fled the country on Aug. 5, 2024, after weeks of protests that have resulted in scores of deaths.

The Conversation

Who were the Razakars and why are they central to Bangladesh protests?

They were a force of collaborators used by Pakistan to try to crush the movement for an independent Bangladesh.

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Kissinger and a forgotten genocide

It's hard to keep track of Kissinger's crimes — but his handling of the Pakistan crisis of 1971 was up there

Salon

Henry Kissinger’s role in Bengali massacre

Letter: In 1971 he advised Nixon to side with Pakistan’s military dictator in his war with Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, writes Robert Evans

The Guardian - UK

Tripura starts survey to know status of plots exchanged with East Pakistanis after 1947 Partition

The Tripura government has started an in-depth survey to know the status of plots exchanged between the people of the state and erstwhile East Pakistan before and after the Partition in 1947

The Hindu

We rarely hear about the disasters that were avoided – but there’s a lot we can learn from them

When a huge cyclone slammed into East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh) in November 1970 it caused water in the Ganges Delta to rise by 10 metres. Entire towns were submerged. At least 300,000 people died – it remains atop lists of the deadliest known tropical cyclones.

The Conversation

Understanding 'self-determination'

At the seminar entitled "Self-determination and Patani Peace" at Prince of Songkla University in Pattani on June 7, mock referendum ballots were distributed to the attendants to explore the possibility for a referendum for a "Patani State", or the secession of Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and four districts of Songkhla --…

Bangkok Post

How a cyclone created a new nation

The discontent of the millions displaced was politicised, eventually leading to a civil war and the birth of a new republic named Bangladesh.

360info

Monster makes fun of creator: Taliban leader shames Pakistan, shares 1971 surrender picture

NEW DELHI: Pakistan tasted their own medicine when an Afghan Taliban member shamed them for surrendering to India in the 1971 war that led to the creation of a new nation, Bangladesh from erstwhile East Pakistan.

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The bloody legacy of Pakistan's creation in witness's own words

As Pakistan celebrates its 75th anniversary, Dr Mirza Mohammed Qadeer Baig tells in his own words the repercussions caused when the British left in 1947 and the horrors of Partition

The Hindu

Make citizenship to Chakma, Hajongs in Arunachal final: NHRC

Displaced from the erstwhile East Pakistan, members of the two communities were settled in the country’s easternmost State in the 1960s

The Hindu

Four decades on, 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan get land, houses

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held previous governments responsible for the plight of such families

The Times of India

UP government gives farm, residential land to Bangladeshi Hindu families displaced in 1970

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday handed over letters of lease for agricultural and residential land to 63 Hindu families who were displaced in 1970 from Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). They have also been given Rs 1.20 lakh for construction of houses under the Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana.

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Tibet's armed resistance to Chinese invasion

Part 6: The Tibetan resistance continues, and thwarts a genocide

The Hindu

Russia-Ukraine crisis | Russian President Vladimir Putin uses Indira Gandhi’s 1971 tactics

Developments bear uncanny similarities with events in Indian subcontinent half a century ago

Newslaundry

Blood Island: Tugging at historical memory

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