‘Pre-planned massacre’: Bangladesh marks Genocide Day, slams Pakistan over 1971

Tarique Rahman (ANI file photo) Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday condemned the atrocious acts committed by the Pakistani military during Operation Searchlight on March 25, 1971. In a letter shared online to mark the Genocide Day, he said that the Pakistani army carried out “one of the most heinous genocides in history against […]

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US House resolution seeks ‘genocide’ tag for Pakistan’s 1971 atrocities on Bengali Hindus

US House(L); refugees fleeing East Pakistan in 1971 (R, AP file photo) US Congressman Greg Landsman has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives seeking to recognise the atrocities committed by Pakistani army and its allies, against Bengali Hindus in 1971, as war crimes and genocide.Landsman, a Democrat from Ohio, moved the resolution on […]

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