Rapturous shouts of “Joy Bangla Desh” rent the Lok Sabha on December 7, 1971, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced in the House that the Government had decided “to grant recognition to the Gana Prajatantri Bangla Desh”. It is our hope that with the passage of time more nations will grant recognition to the ‘Gana Prajatantri Bangla Desh’ and it …
With the formal surrender of the Pakistan army at its headquarters in Dacca, the war in the eastern sector has ended without unnecessary bloodshed, as Gen. Manekshaw suggested. At the same time, the new State of Bangla Desh has truly arrived as a “free country” as our Prime Minister crisply put it when announcing the good news to the Lok …
