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Rajshahi was freed on this day, two days after the country's victory in its Liberation War. Geias Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury Bir Bikrom, then army captain and commander of sub-sector-4 under sector-7, declared Rajshahi's freedom from the Pakistani occupation forces, hoisting the flag of independent Bangladesh at Madrassa Maidan in the afternoon of December 18, 1971, said wartime journalist Ahmed Shafi Uddin in Rajshahi. Ahmed Shafi Uddin was the Chief Reporter of Weekly Sonar Desh at that time. Pakistani army issued 'red warrants' against all journalists of Sonar Desh forcing them to take shelter ...

"The workers of Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha who are spread throughout the nook and corner of the country and who are loyal, sincere and honest Pakistanis, like to serve the nation in this odd hour in the best possible manner." That's how Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed introduced the members of Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS), the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, to Pakistan's martial law administration as he proposed the formation of Al-Badr during the Liberation War, 1971. Al-Badr was the fearsome militia which under Mojaheed's leadership traced houses and systematically rounded up, torture...