Timeline of major earthquakes in Pakistan: 1971-2015
7 magnitude struck major cities of Pakistan, including the northern areas...
Below is a timeline of all the major earthquakes that have struck Pakistan...
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BlogsPakistan’s contrary years (1971-1977): A cultural history of the Bhutto era
The 1970s were no different in Pakistan as well...
Incidentally (and rather aptly), the 1970s in Pakistan were dominated by one of the country’s most enigmatic, flamboyant and contradictory politicians ever: ZA Bhutto...
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WorldRajnath Singh warns Pakistan of 1971-like consequences
Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said Pakistan would "soon be in ten pieces" if cross-border terrorism does not come to an end, Times of India reported...
"Pakistan has been divided into 2 countries (in 1971)...
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PakistanTimeline of major earthquakes in Pakistan: 1971-2018
1-magnitude earthquake jolted various parts of Pakistan, including Quetta, Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Charsadda, Murree, Sargodha, Shangla, Haripur and Gujranwala...
Below is a timeline of all the major earthquakes that have struck Pakistan...
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ArchiveBangladesh hangs JI leader for 1971 killings
DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities on Saturday hanged a top Islamist leader for overseeing a massacre during the nation’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, officials said...
30pm Bangladesh time,” law and justice minister Anisul Huq said...
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ArchiveFootprints: ‘How can we forget Dec 16, 1971?’
When I used to pass it as a child, I’d always wonder at the billboard: “Hamaray haan Mashriqi Pakistan ki masnooaat dastiyaab hain [Products of East Pakistan are available here]...
But the Alam brothers insist on believing in this “myth” that East Pakistan is still part of the country...
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ArchiveBangladesh sentences 2 more to death in 1971 war crimes
NEW DELHI: A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh on Tuesday sentenced two more men to death after finding them guilty of killing, kidnapping and looting during the country's independence war against Pakistan in 1971...
Prosecutors said they helped Pakistani soldiers attack a village in Netrokona district on Oct 19, 1971...
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ArchiveFlashback to 1971
BY not respecting the verdict of the people in the 1970 elections and by launching the Pakistan Army against its own people in East Pakistan, the military leadership had created a crisis of frightening magnitude...
In this they were helped no end by Lt Gen Niazi’s obsession with the ridiculous strategic thought of defending every inch of East Pakistan...
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WorldBangladesh sentences three militiamen to death for 1971 'war crimes'
DHAKA: A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced three militia members to death for carrying out killings and other serious crimes in the country during the 1971 war between India and Pakistan...
The accused men were members of the Al Badr militia group which the Bangladesh government say, collaborated with the Pakistani army to commit genocide in country's Jamalpur district in 1971...
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WorldBangladesh JI member sentenced to death for war crimes in 1971
NEW DELHI: A special tribunal dealing with war crimes committed during Bangladesh's independence war against Pakistan in 1971 has sentenced a former lawmaker to death and seven others to life in prison for murder and other crimes...
In May, Bangladesh executed Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the JI, just days after the nation's highest court dismissed his final appeal to overturn the death sentence for atrocities committed during the...
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ArchiveBangladesh hangs JI financier for 1971 war crimes
Mir Quasem Ali, a key leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed after being convicted by a controversial war crimes tribunal for offences committed during the 1971 independence conflict with Pakistan...
“The execution took place at 10:35pm,” the country’s law and justice minister Anisul Huq said...
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ArchiveFour sentenced for 1971 ‘war crimes’
NEW DELHI: A special war crimes court in Bangladesh sentenced four men to death on Tuesday for killing, torture, arson and looting during the 1971 war...
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WorldBangladesh executes top Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman over '1971 war crimes'
Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at a prison in the capital Dhaka, just days after the nation's highest court dismissed his final appeal to overturn the death sentence for atrocities committed during the country's 1971 war...
Law and Justice minister Anisul Huq told AFP the 73-year-old leader was hanged just before midnight (1800 GMT) after he refused to seek mercy from the country's president... ...
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ArchiveSoviets tried to avert 1971 war: CIA files
NEW DELHI: The common belief that the 1971 war between India and Pakistan was among other factors a reflection of the Cold War realpolitik stands contradicted by the recently released CIA files...
The files declassified in the last days of the Obama administration also show that while the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was blamed for much of the crisis with the predominantly Bengali East Pakistan, it was the West Pakistani component of the...
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BlogsBangladesh must come to terms with the 1971 war holistically, allowing critical discourse to flourish
It is the country's way of telling the world that it was the public that fought and won the war in 1971...
It is an attempt by many in the civil society to salvage that history from being consumed by the bilateral politics of India and Pakistan...
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