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Operation Searchlight

Both General Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), did not want a federal government to be headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman of the predominantly East Pakistan-based Awami League. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | November 21st, 1971

On March 25, 1971, the West Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight massacring

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