Anti-liberation activities in 1971
Peace committee 1971
On April 4, 1971, 12 proPakistan leaders, including
Nurul Amin, Ghulam Azam and
Khwaja Khairuddin, met General
Tikka Khan of the Pakistan
Army and assured him of
cooperation against the rebels.
Following the talks, right-wing
leaders formed a 140-member
peace committee to restore
peace in East Pakistan.
Al-Badar role in 1971
Al Badr is a notorious paramilitary
force that aided the Pakistan Army
during Bangladesh's 1971 war of
independence. Which was created to
form public opinion for the purpose
of keeping the state of Pakistan
intact. The force was formed under
the patronage of General Niazi, the
chief of the East Pakistan Army.
Muhammad Ashraf Hossain and
Matiur Rahman Nizami was the
leading person at that time.
Al-Shams in 1971
Al-Shams is a reputed paramilitary
force formed by the Pakistan Army
during the Bangladesh War of
Independence in 1971. Al-Shams is an
Arabic word meaning 'The Sun'. Al
Shams was local Bengali and Bihari
armed groups formed by the Pakistan
Army which were mostly recruited
from the student wing of Jamaat-eIslami to fight out and resist Mukti
Bahini.
Fazlul Quader Chowdhury and
Saka Chowdhury was the leader of AlShams.
Rajakar Bahini 1971
The Razakars were formed
in 1971 to provide
assistance to the warring
Pakistani military. In May,
at an Ansar camp on Khan
Jahan Ali Road in Khulna, a
pro-Pakistan Razakar force
was formed with 96 proPakistan activists.
Killing of intellectual
On 14 December 1971, over
200 of Bengali intellectuals
including professors,
journalists, doctors, artists,
engineers, and writers were
abducted from their homes in
Dhaka by the Al-Badr militia
and the Pakistan Army.
Notable novelist Shahidullah
Kaiser and playwright Munier
Choudhury were among the
victims.
Bangabandhu in west Pakistan custody in 1971
On April 1, 1971 Bangabandhu sheik
Mujibur Rahman was airlifted to
Rawalpindi. After being taken there,
he was sent to Mianwali Jail and kept
in a condom cell for the executed
prisoners. During the next nine
months, he was kept at Mianwali Jail
and at Layalpur and Shahiwal Jails in
the northern Punjab province of
Pakistan
World leader reaction to Bangabandhu during west
Pakistan jail in 1971