Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight, a violent military crackdown in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to crush demands for ...

Balochistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) do share some commonalities, such as being part of larger political entities – ...

KARACHI: The City administration and law enforcement in Karachi on Friday started the ‘forced repatriation’ of an estimated ...

On the glorious occasion of Bangladesh’s 55th Independence Day, I pay my heartfelt tribute and deep respect to the martyrs of ...

ISLAMABAD: Karachi and Dhaka will be the only two cities in Asia-Pacific region among the 10 cities of the Global South that ...

Today, as Pakistan is facing a series of domestic and external challenges, it is pertinent to hark back to this resolution’s ...

The brutality of Operation Searchlight became the spark for the Bengali nation's struggle for freedom, culminating in the ...

All external bank transactions are forbidden by what some observers call “Mujibur’s de facto Government,” and no money is flowing between East and West Pakistan. In Karachi, Zulfikar All ...

leading to military action in East Pakistan and the establishment of Bangladesh. The Awami League had won an absolute majority. Having gained majority support in the West, Bhutto was handed power ...

On the other hand, Iran shares a border with Pakistan. Historically, Pakistan-Iran relations have fluctuated. Iran becoming a nuclear power will create new challenges for Pakistan, including border ...

with two regions – West Pakistan and East Pakistan. Separated by 1,600km of Indian territory, the two regions struggled to see eye to eye on governance, economic policies and ethnic representation.

Based on these factors, Binder argued that “the Middle East proper stretches from Libya to Iran, with fringe areas including Afghanistan, Pakistan ... Syria, West Bank, Turkey, Iraq, Iran ...