However, due to the ongoing military operation, the formal declaration was read out by Major Ziaur Rahman over Radio Pakistan ... and fair picture of historical events devoid of political bias.

Among the most haunting images of this upheaval is the desolation ... the party Ershad had formed to come to power after Ziaur Rahman was killed in a military coup, participated in the elections ...

A sales person stands in front of a picture of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ... after he had proclaimed his region independent…”. Interestingly, Ziaur Rahman, who was then a major in the Pakistan Army, read ...

In fact, one of the defining images from August 5 ... by Awami League member M A Hannan in Bengali in the afternoon of March 26, 1971. Ziaur Rahman, then a mutinying major in the Pakistan Army, read ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

On March 26, 1971, Ziaur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh, and on March 27, he made another declaration of independence on behalf of Bangabandhu', a Daily Star report reads.

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.