More than 50 years ago, when Pakistan was divided into its West and East wing, the country conducted its first general election after independence in 1970. Nationalistic fervour reached an all-time high when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-led Awami League, the main political party of the East, contested the 1970 general election and won it convincingly. Mujibur Rahman’s election plank was to …
On 15 August 1975, the country’s founding father Bangandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members were assassinated and the Awami League government was ousted from power. From the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 to the rise of the country’s first military dictator, Gen Zia, in 1977, the die was cast. On 9 …
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