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  2. History of East Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    History of Pakistan. The history of East Bengal and East Pakistan from 1947 to 1971 covers the period of Bangladesh 's history between its independence as a part of Pakistan from British colonial rule in 1947 to its independence from Pakistan in 1971.

  3. East Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, with a coastline on the Bay of Bengal. East Pakistanis were popularly known as "Pakistani Bengalis"; to ...

  4. East Pakistan Air Operations (1971) - Wikipedia

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    East Pakistan Air Operations covers the activity of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and Pakistan Army Aviation units in former East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The operations involved the interdiction, air defense, ground support, and logistics missions flown by the Bangladesh Air Force, Indian Air Force, and the Indian Navy ...

  5. Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution - Wikipedia

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    Website. bsti.gov.bd. Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) is an autonomous government body under the Ministry of Industries, established to control the standards of services, goods, weights and measures, and promote the adoption of the international system of units in Bangladesh. [1] This institution is a Key Performance ...

  6. Partition of Bengal (1947) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Partition of Bengal in 1947, also known as the Second Partition of Bengal, part of the Partition of India, divided the British Indian Bengal Province along the Radcliffe Line between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. The Bengali Hindu -majority West Bengal became a state of India, and the Bengali Muslim -majority ...

  7. Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Southeast Asia[a] is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania. [5] Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of Bengal, to the east ...

  8. The Concert for Bangladesh (album) - Wikipedia

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    – George Harrison to Musician magazine, November 1987 While in Los Angeles in June 1971, and after being made aware of the gravity of the situation in what was then known as East Pakistan by friend and musician Ravi Shankar, George Harrison set about organising two fundraising concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, to aid the war-ravaged and disaster-stricken country. In the middle of ...

  9. East Asia Summit - Wikipedia

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    A session of the 10th East Asia Summit, 2015. The East Asia Summit (EAS) is a regional forum held annually by leaders of, initially, 16 countries in the East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian and Oceanian regions, based on the ASEAN Plus Six mechanism. Membership expanded to 18 countries including Russia and the United States at the Sixth EAS ...