The 1971 India-Pakistan War lasted just 13 days (December 3-16) because East Pakistan was geographically isolated, nine months of Mukti Bahini resistance had a…
The Awami League wins 160 of East Pakistan's 162 general National Assembly seats, an outright majority of all Pakistan. West Pakistan's leadership refuses to convene the…
The Pakistan Army launches a crackdown on Bengali nationalist activity. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is arrested and imprisoned in West Pakistan for the rest of the war. A nine…
The Mujibnagar provisional government forms. The Mukti Bahini, Bengali guerrilla and regular forces, fight Pakistan's occupation for months before India's regular army e…
An estimated 10 million people cross into India, the largest displacement of its kind in decades, straining Indian states and becoming central to India's diplomacy.
Pakistan launches preemptive air strikes on Indian airbases (Operation Chengiz Khan). India declares war and opens full offensives on both fronts, converting nine months…
Rather than fight through a defended river crossing, Lt Gen Sagat Singh airlifts roughly 5,000 troops across the Meghna by helicopter in 36 hours, bypassing one of the l…
2 Para parachutes into Tangail, seizing the Poongli Bridge and cutting off a Pakistani brigade retreating to defend Dhaka, one of the largest airborne operations since W…
Lt Gen A.A.K. Niazi signs the Instrument of Surrender before Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora. Roughly 93,000 personnel are taken prisoner. The war ends after 13 days; Banglad…
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