• Her father earned this sobriquet from the slaughter in East Pakistan as Bangladesh struggled to be born.

    ECONOMIST: Benazir Bhutto | The

  • Bangladesh says more than three million died when troops were sent to stop East Pakistan becoming independent in 1971.

    BBC: Dhaka police and protesters clash over war crime trials

  • Some 2m refugees returned home last year the biggest population movement since the formation of Bangladesh from what was East Pakistan.

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  • After India's partition in 1947, when Chittagong became part of what was then East Pakistan, reputable local citizens were allowed to become members.

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  • Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, says more than three million people died when West Pakistan sent troops to stop it becoming independent in 1971.

    BBC: Bangladesh strike over war crimes trials sparks clashes

  • Many commentators recalled that failures after the cyclone in East Pakistan in 1970 helped lead to the territory's breakaway as Bangladesh the following year.

    ECONOMIST: A race against winter | The

  • As prime minster in 1971, Indira Gandhi led India in a war against neighbouring Pakistan which resulted in the creations of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan.

    BBC: Indira Gandhi 'greatest woman'

  • There is even talk about a new round of Pakistani disintegration, comparable to the break-up in 1971, when subjugated East Pakistan split away to become Bangladesh.

    ECONOMIST: Balochistan

  • In the 1970s, after their third war (over East Pakistan breaking away, with India's help, to become Bangladesh), the two sides agreed to respect this frontier.

    ECONOMIST: Back to playing cricket

  • This stampede of refugees was first halted, then reversed within months, but only after India went to war with Pakistan, invaded and occupied East Pakistan, and then created the new state of Bangladesh.

    ECONOMIST: Exporting misery | The

  • The International Crimes Tribunal was set up by the Awami League-led government to try those Bangladeshis accused of collaborating with Pakistani forces who attempted to stop East Pakistan (as Bangladesh was then) from becoming an independent country.

    BBC: Asia

  • At the time, the Pakistani army and its local collaborators, including the Jamaat-e-Islami, killed some 3 million Bangladeshis and raped 200, 000 women in a failed attempt to prevent the breakaway of what was then known as East Pakistan.

    WSJ: Sadanand Dhume: Bangladesh on the Brink

  • The special court was set up in 2010 by the current Bangladeshi government to deal with those accused of collaborating with Pakistani forces who attempted to stop East Pakistan (as Bangladesh was then) from becoming an independent country.

    BBC: Jamaat-e-Islami protest in Dhaka (5 Feb 2013)

  • In 1971 violence between Hindus and Muslims in what was then East Pakistan, exacerbated by economic collapse, floods and famine, sent 10m Hindus fleeing into India, which considered the exodus the result of a deliberate policy of Pakistan's government.

    ECONOMIST: Exporting misery | The

  • Mr Sayeedi is the third defendant to be convicted by the tribunal, which was set up in 2010 by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government to deal with those accused of collaborating with Pakistani forces who attempted to stop East Pakistan (as Bangladesh was then) from becoming an independent country.

    BBC: Three killed in more Bangladesh war crimes violence

  • The patient, who is receiving intensive care treatment in a Manchester hospital, had recently travelled to the Middle East and Pakistan.

    BBC: Second UK case of 'Sars-like' coronavirus identified

  • The second was linked to travel to the Middle East and Pakistan.

    BBC: Third family member has 'Sars-like virus'

  • Prior to the sale he and Indian cellular billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal had contemplated a swap whereby India could access the Middle East via Pakistan and Pakistan could access Singapore via Chennai.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • Certainly one would not expect a weak-willed coward to surge tens of thousands of combat troops into Afghanistan, nor would you expect such a milquetoast to dispatch a large number of flying death robots to regularly dispense extra legal justice-via-missile across a broad swath of the Middle East and Pakistan.

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  • Osama bin Laden and his followers are reinvigorated by the news from almost every part of the planet that a U.S.-induced subprime mortgage crisis has engulfed the world and thrown some 50 million out of work from North America to Europe to the Middle East to Pakistan and India, to Singapore, China, South Korea and Japan.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The silent cyberwar

  • But the idea that the prolonged nature of both battles invalidates intervention or is the "West's" fault is not only wrong, it is at the root of why we find what is happening today not just in the Middle East but in Pakistan and elsewhere so perplexing.

    WSJ: Confronting Gadhafi Is Not Enough

  • Doede, who chairs the private equity AIG Silk Road Fund, spent an average of a week a month for four and a half years looking for "a neglected opportunity" in the politically and economically dicey part of the world stuck between Russia to the north, China to the east and Iran and Pakistan to the south.

    FORBES: Silk Road Strategies

  • We had a detailed exchange on the situation in our extended region, including East Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and West Asia.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Prime Minister Singh Press Availability | The White House

  • Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan on the east and south, Iran on the west, China on the northeast, and Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on the north.

    CNN: Flood of Afghan refugees feared

  • Last, the administration has announced a conceptual change: that it will think of the greater Middle East (including Afghanistan and Pakistan) as an integrated whole, despite the separate envoys.

    ECONOMIST: American foreign policy

  • Moenjodaro, located on the right bank of the Indus River, 510 km north-east of Karachi, in Pakistan's Sindh Province, flourished for about 1000 years during the third and second millennium BC.

    UNESCO: Safeguarding Moenjodaro

  • On Wednesday the US joined the other four permanent members of the Security Council in signing a statement calling for a nuclear-free Middle East and urging Israel, Pakistan and India to accede to the NPT as non-nuclear states.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Time to plan for war

  • But most were from immigrant families from Pakistan living in the East End of London.

    NPR: British Stance in Iraq Tied to Airline Bomb Plot

  • Most of the latter, it turns out, were persuaded to join the jihad only after they had arrived at Islamic boarding schools in Pakistan or the Middle East.

    ECONOMIST: Islam in South-East Asia

  • John Nicholson, who commands along the Pakistan border in the east, also made it clear that his troops were less concerned with finding bin Laden than routing out the Taliban and any al Qaeda fighters who came their way.

    CNN: Who's next?

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