However, recent revisions in Bangladeshi textbooks have sparked controversy by attributing the declaration of independence to Ziaur Rahman, the late husband of former Bangladesh Prime Minister ...

Bangladesh is rewriting its textbooks for primary and secondary students stating that it was Ziaur Rahman and not Mujibur ...

Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman said he led the 8th Battalion of the then East Bengal Regiment to revolt against the Pakistan occupation forces as it started military operations to kill innocent ...

The new textbooks for primary and secondary students will now state that Ziaur ... Mujibur Rahman declared independence via a wireless message just before he was arrested by the Pakistan army ...

Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, has decided to revise the delta nation's history textbooks to replace 'Bangabandhu' ...

Bangladesh’s interim government has revised the national curriculum, replacing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with General Ziaur Rahman as the nation’s founding figure. The move, it says, aims to ...

The legacies of Sheikh Mujib and Ziaur Rahman have always been politically contested, and the question of who proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan is disputed. While the Awami ...