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Pakistan's Lt. Gen A. A. K. Niazi signs the instrument of surrender on 16 December 1971, surrendering his forces to Lt. Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora the Mitro Bahini (Allies).

Indian Lt. Gen J.S. Aurora and Pakistani Lt. Gen A.A.K. Niazi's signatures on the Instrument of Surrender.

Illustration showing military units and troop movements during the war.

Leaflets and pamphlets played an important role in driving public opinion during the war.

The eleven sectors of (then) East Pakistan

Indian Army's T-55 tanks on their way to Dhaka. India's military intervention played a crucial role in turning the tide in favour of the Bangladeshi rebels.

On 16 December 1971, Lt. Gen A.A.K. Niazi, CO of Pakistan Army forces located in East Pakistan signed the instrument of surrender.

At the time of surrender only a few countries had provided diplomatic recognition the new nation. Bangladesh sought admission in the UN with most voting in its favor, but China vetoed this as Pakistan was its key ally. However, the United States was one of the last nations to accord Bangladesh recognition.

To ensure a smooth transition, in 1972 the Simla Agreement was signed between India and Pakistan. The treaty ensured that Pakistan recognized the independence of Bangladesh in exchange for the return of the Pakistani PoWs. India treated all the PoWs in strict accordance with the Geneva Convention, rule 1925. It released more than 96,000 Pakistani PoWs in five months. Further, as a gesture of goodwill, nearly 200 soldiers who were sought for war crimes Bengalis were also pardoned by India. The accord also gave back more than 13,000 km² of land that Indian troops had seized in West Pakistan during the war, though India retained a few strategic areas; most notably Kargil (which would in turn again be the focal point f between the two nations in 1999). This was done as a measure of promoting "lasting peace" and was acknowledged by many observers as a sign of maturity by India. But some in India felt that the treaty had been too lenient to Bhutto, who had pleaded for leniency, arguing that the fragile democracy in Pakistan would crumble if the accord was perceived as being overly harsh by Pakistanis.

Historical photograph of the Rayerbazar killing fields in Bangladesh, 1971. It shows the killing of intellectuals as part of 1971 Bagladesh Atrocities.

During the war there were widespread killings and other atrocities – including the displacement of civilians in Bangladesh (East Pakistan at the time) and widespread violations of human rights – carried out by the Pakistan Army with support from political and religious militias began with the start of "Operation Searchlight" on 25th March 1971.

Bangladeshi authorities claim that three million people were killed, the Hamoodur Rahman Commission, an official Pakistan Government investigation, put the figure as low as 26,000 civilian casualties. The international media and reference books in English have also published figures which vary greatly from 200,000 to 3,000,000 for Bangladesh as a whole. A further eight to ten million people fled the country to seek safety in India.

A large section of the intellectual community of Bangladesh were murdered, mostly by the Al-Shams and Al-Badr forces, at the instruction of the Pakistani Army. Two days before the surrender, on 14th December 1971, Pakistan Army and Razakar militia (local collaborators) picked up at least 100 to 300 physicians, professors, writers and engineers in Dhaka, and executed them, leaving the dead bodies in a mass grave. There are many mass graves in Bangladesh, and more are continually being discovered (such as one in an old well near a mosque in Dhaka, located in the non-Bengali region of the city, which was discovered in August 1999). The first night of war on Bengalis, which is documented in telegrams from the American Consulate in Dhaka to the United States State Department, saw indiscriminate killings of students of Dhaka University and other civilians.

Numerous women were tortured, raped and killed during the war; the exact numbers are not known and are a subject of debate. Bangladeshi sources cite a figure of 200,000 women raped, giving birth to thousands of "War Babies". The Pakistan Army also kept numerous Bengali women as sex-slaves inside the Dhaka Cantonment. Most of the girls were captured from Dhaka University and private homes.





Bangladesh is a free country today... A lot (actually most) of the responsibility for which lies with India.. They could probably never have tasted the joy of freedom had it not been for the Indian assistance - India waged a full-scale war with their tormentors, for their sake... I don't wish to go into the political aspect of the things.. the fact is, they are not being raped, killed, mutilated, exploited today almost entirely because of India........
(Any Bangladeshi supporters reading this blog - kindly refrain from commenting.. If your forefathers had the balls, they wouldn't have let all that happen to them - their wives, daughters and sisters were captured en masse to serve as "sex slaves" in Pakistani army camps...)

What I fail to understand is, HOW CAN THE BAGLADESHIS SUPPORT ANTI-INIDA ISLAMIC TERRORISTS LIKE THE HuJi THEN....???

Are they really THAT SHAMELESS & UNGRATEFUL...?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What the F*|_|(K is BDR (Bangladesh's equivalent of Indian BSF - Border Security Force) doing when it (literally) abducts, kills and returns the mangled remains (you won't really call them corpses) of BSF personnel.... ???!

If not out of a sense of indebtedness and respect for India then atleast out of a sense of self preservation, can't they see the fate of Pakistan today..??? It is reeling under the pressure of Islamic terrorism that it so carefully cultivated to make "India bleed through a thousand cuts"...

Are they really THAT B.L.I.N.D. AND INSANE....???

How do they plan to get away with all this...?? Have they completely forgotten that a nation that could "create" them, could also "annihilate" them with equal ease..???? ;-)



Or maybe.. India should look for *moles* in its own politics... Who let it happen....?????????

Does anybody reading this blog post know that even as this blog is being written, more that one lac (that's one with five zeroes after it - 100,000!!) Hindus and Christians have been driven out of five districts in Assam by illegal (muslim) Bangladeshi immigrants so that (traitors) Assamese politicians could win elections with their votes...?? YES! They are **Officially Indian** now... Kudos to the corrupt administrative machinery that has been "employed" and utilized to the fullest by these (scum-of-earth-traitors) politicians to further their own cause... They now have *Indian* ration cards!!!

Does that mean anything to the readers of this blog..?? Can you figure out the burden (actually a menace..) on the country posed by these (inhuman) "creatures"..???

These people are forced to live in refugee camps in their own land.. where they have lived for generations (possibly eons) together.... And they have been driven out by these ungrateful Bangladeshis........

T-H-I-N-K.....!!!