Image Source : AP Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's painting damaged by protestors in Bangladesh Dhaka: Bangladesh has introduced new textbooks that state that Ziaur Rahman declared the country’s ...

Bangladeshi textbooks have asserted that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the country's independence through a wireless message just before his arrest by the Pakistan Army on March 26, 1971. Ziaur ...

and that Ziaur Rahman, who was an army major and later a sector commander of the Liberation War, merely read out the declaration upon Mujib's instructions. Meanwhile, supporters of BNP believe ...

Bangladesh has changed its history in the text books for primary and secondary students which state that the independence in 1971 was declared by former army major and president Ziaur Rahman.

Islami and a segment of the BNP, is reportedly modifying textbooks, dismantling murals of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and ...

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

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

army chief of staff Khaled Mosharraf led a successful coup against him. Subsequently, rival insurgents killed Mosharraf. After several successive coups and counter-coups, General Ziaur Rahman ...

Bangladesh sought to re-write its history as the new textbooks for primary and secondary students placed former military ruler Ziaur Rehman as the leader who declared the country's independence in ...

In the article, Ziaur Rahman, who was an army major during the Liberation War, recounted his school and cadet life in Pakistan, the volatile situation in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), and the events ...

Bangladesh has introduced new textbooks that state that Ziaur Rahman declared the country’s independence in 1971, replacing the previous ones crediting founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur ...