East Pakistan News

Every year on February 21, International Mother Language Day is marked to celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity as well as multilingualism. UNESCO initially proclaimed it in 1999 to honour the Bangladeshi Language Movement. UNESCO designated February 21 as International Mother Tongue Day.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari made these remarks in a veiled jibe at the former Army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa who termed it a 'political failure'.The East Pakistan debacle in 1971 saw Pakistan suffering a humiliating defeat to India.

Pakistan's outgoing Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa, created a controversy He said that only 34,000 Pak soldiers surrendered to India in the 1971 War "The East Pakistan crisis was not a military but a political failure.... , said General Bajwa

Hafiz Saeed has vowed to liberate Kashmir from India's occupation soon He said that Pakistan's defeat in the 1971 war will be avenged He was recently freed from house arrest in Pakistan

A five judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court will examine constitutional validity of the Citizenship Act`s Section 6A providing granting citizenship to migrants from then East Pakistan who had crossed over to India before March 25, 1971.

The Agartala-Dhaka bus, started in 2015 and which was supposed to be a daily service, has been reduced to thrice a week because it found few passengers.

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre and Arunachal Pradesh government to grant citizenship within three months to Chakma and Hajong tribals who had migrated from Bangladesh in 1964-69, saying they cannot be discriminated in any manner,