1971 And The Erasure Of The Biharis
Over the last two decades or so, I am looking at the erasure of how some 3-400,000 stranded human beings ...
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Tag: 1971
Secession Of East Pakistan In Retrospect
Over five decades have passed since East Pakistan seceded, after terrible carnage and a bruising civil war, marking the period ...
1971: A Personal Account Of The Year Pakistan Broke Apart – III
In the summer of 1971 when the Bengali uprising had built up wide-spread momentum and the security forces desperately tried ...
Tragedy Foretold: Three Fatal Decisions That Led To The 1971 Conflict
The 50th anniversary of the fall of Dhaka, arguably the most painful milestone in our history, resurrected a vexed question: ...
Playing The Fiddle While Dhaka Burned: How We Ended Up With A Leftover Pakistan
16th of December 1971: General AAK Niazi receives a telegram from President Yahya Khan which reads: "You have fought a ...
Can ‘Khel Khel Mein’ Help Us Come To Terms With The Injustices And Trauma From 1971?
Brothers were separated. Both the Eastern and Western wings of the country were stained by blood. Relations between them changed: ...
Fifty Years Since The 1971 War
It was the night of the full moon. Invoking a dictum of Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s – the defense of ...
Pakistan’s Calcitrant Communist: Abdullah Malik At 101
October this year is special for those in the Indian Subcontinent who profess to be on the Left and have ...
On The Art Of War And Writing Letters To The Enemy: Gallantry At The Battle Of Jamalpur
In 1971, Pakistan found itself in an impossible situation. Severe polarization between the two wings of the country had resulted ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
The Right Path
The creators and perpetrators of the disastrous Hybrid...
FIA Arrest Azam Swati For Tweeting Against Military, PEMRA Refuses Swati Coverage
This is the second time in less than...