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"Dhaka is now a free capital of a free country"Said The then PM of 🇮🇳Indira Gandhi on 16 Dec,1971 after surrender of 🇵🇰forces in 🇧🇩,but the greatest Military surrender was achieved through sharp mind games. Read this thread to know the fascinating details #VijayDiwas 
The Military operation in the then East Pakistan was spear headed by Field Marshall ( CoAS ) Sam Maneckshaw - A Parsi , Gen. J.F.R Jacob ( CoS Eastern Command ) - A Jew & Gen. JJ Singh Arora ( GoC - Eastern command ) - A sikh #1971IndoPakWar #1971WarHeroes #VijayDiwas
But it was J .F.R Jacob the Jewish General from Calcutta who made Pakistan Surrender in Bangladesh .Jack Farj Rafael Jacob grew up in a conservative Baghdadi Jews of Calcutta.
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'Genocide' Screamed the report by Journalist Anthony Mascarenhas on the situation in the then 'East Pakistan' published by UK's Sunday Times on 13 June,1971 & the world woke up to the atrocities committed by Pakistani forces . #Bangladesh50 #1971War #BangladeshLiberationWar
The Report helped to turn the world opinion against Pakistan & encouraged India to play a decisive role .#BangladeshLiberationWar #Bangladesh50 #1971War #1971IndoPakWar
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Neville Anthony Mascarenhas was born in Belgaum, Karnataka on July 10, 1928. A Roman Catholic, he was educated at St Patrick’s College, Karachi, before joining Reuters in Bombay in 1948. He & his family stayed back in Pakistan after partition #Bangladesh50 #1971IndoPakWar
I had visited Dhaka almost 18 years ago & what amazes me today is the giant leap of Bangladesh on all development parameters -more so since Sheikh Hasina took over in 2009 for her second term -a run that continues till date and is longest phase of stability in #Bangladesh50
While in Dhaka, I came face to face with disparity, that I have not seen anywhere till date. When I visited Dhaka, Khaleda Zia was at the helm of affairs of BD and (must have been) occupying the Gana Bhaban- official residence of BD PM... military checkpoints were all over!
World trade was undergoing massive changes and Bangladesh, as a nascent and upcoming centre of readymade garment trade, was facing a high degree of uncertainty. Every hotel we went to, I saw Chinese (u can identify them by the noise they make at their respective tables)...
As Bangladesh turns 50, and LUMS cancels a conference remembering 1971 entitled “War, Violence and Memory” it seems the Pakistan establishment still cannot tolerate a critical examination of their role in the atrocities committed in Bangladesh. 1/5
In March 1971, my mother, Hamida Khuhro, then a Fellow at St. Antony’s College, was one of the only West Pakistanis unafraid to speak out when news of the army’s attacks began to filter through. 2/5
In a letter to The Times in London, published on April 1, 1971, she implicated the army and the bureaucrats, and delineated ZA Bhutto’s role in the tragedy: 3/5
