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According to the World Bank and IMF, Bangladesh went past India and Pakistan in GDP growth rate and per capita income. In the Sub-continent, Bangladesh topped in seven indicators, India in six, while Pakistan in only one.
Hot on the heels of this report came another news, which said Bangladesh outshone both India and Pakistan in per capita GDP, and is expected to keep galloping ahead of them in the days to come.
One thing, however, has been corroborated repeatedly Pakistan is unlikely to rectify itself.
Last December, Bangladesh celebrated the nation s victory in the 1971 Liberation War. On the historic day of December 16, 1971, Pakistan army s General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi along with his 93,000 soldiers surrendered to the joint forces of Bangladesh and India. Heads lowered, they laid down their weapons at the Ramna Race Course ground in presence of the victorious people of Bangladesh.
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman acknowledges the highest sense of patriotism and sacrifice of the officials who helped run the provisional government from Mujibnagar. While addressing a function arranged by Mujibnagar Karmachari Samity, Bangabandhu says today that the independence of the country has been their greatest reward. He announces the government s decision to pay nine months arrears to the officials who worked from Mujibnagar. This announcement is greeted with cheers.
Bangabandhu, however, upbraids the officials who stayed back and helped the occupation forces.
IMPART VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO YOUTH: BANGABANDHU
Bangabandhu has stressed the paramount need to impart vocational training to the youth of the country. He tells a delegation of the teachers of the technical institute of Mohammadpur that the new nation needs a large number of technically trained hands who would contribute their expertise to the development of the country. The prime minister point