This system ultimately developed into a very severe cyclonic storm, designated Cyclone 10B by the JTWC, with three-minute sustained winds of 120 km/h (75 mph) before striking East Pakistan (modern-day Bangladesh).
The western zone was popularly (and for a period of time, also officially) termed West Pakistan and the eastern zone (modern-day Bangladesh) was initially termed East Bengal and later, East Pakistan.
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He spoke at a time of increasing tensions between East Pakistan and the powerful political and military establishment of West Pakistan.
Amena Begum, a former MP of East Pakistan, was a prominent figure in the independence movement of Bangladesh.
As the District Engineer of the Trans-East District of the Corps in 1957-59, he was responsible for U.S. military construction in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and he initiated transportation surveys in East Pakistan and Burma.
He started his educational career as a teacher in East Pakistan.
He was a Standard IX student of Nabakumar Institution, when he took part in a street march demanding autonomy for Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) and was gunned down by the police of Pakistan.
Meetings at the Council were called following a deterioration in relations between India and Pakistan over a series of incidents, including Jammu and Kashmir, and the additional strife in East Pakistan.
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Bengali is mostly spoken in the erstwhile province of East Pakistan, as well as in India's West Bengal province and the disputed territory of Tripura, which is the Bengalis referred to as the Chittagong Plains of East Bengal.
2 December – One of Cargolux's two CL-44's crashes in East Pakistan while conducting a humanitarian airlift, killing four crew members and four villagers.
During the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, it was deployed in the Sylhet Sector of East Pakistan, while in 1971, it served in the Shakargarh Sector.
The organisation and structure of the modern Bangladeshi intelligence community is derived largely from agencies that functioned during the British colonial and East Pakistan periods of the country, which included the Intelligence Bureau and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Although the question of official languages was settled by 1956, the military regime of Ayub Khan promoted the interests of West Pakistan at the expense of East Pakistan.
In April 1954, the general elections were held for the East Pakistan Legislative Assembly, in which the Pakistan Muslim League lost to the pan-Bengali nationalist United Front Alliance.
Enamul Karim Nirjhar was born to Muhammad Afsar Ali and Momtaz Begum in Rajshahi of the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
He was appointed Advocate General of East Pakistan in 1953 and held it till 1954 when he was elevated to the bench as a judge of the Dhaka High Court.
And now they are after a long time the justice process for their terror and violent war crimes have been started and is alleged that the current leader of the party, Motiur Rahman Nizami (as well as previous leaders, and other party members) participated in alongside the Pakistani army in perpetrating the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities as Razakars and members of the Al-Badr militias.
The first College of Singra, Gole Afroz College was named after his oldest granddaughter and was established in East Pakistan.
In 1967, Hassan published the political manifesto, "A Declaration of Unity of People", advocating for Techno-Democratic socialism in East-Pakistan, during which he was lecturing in the topic of Engineering physics at the Dhaka University.
Grew up in East-Pakistan and educated at the Calcutta University of India, Bogra was one of the core and principle Founding Fathers of current and modern state of Pakistan, responsible for leading the Muslim League in East Pakistan, in charge of party's foreign directorate.
Kamaruzzaman was born on 4 July 1952, at Sajbarkhila village in Sherpur, Bangladesh (at the time East Pakistan).
The first faction was created when Awami Muslim League was founded in Dhaka, the erstwhile capital of the Pakistani province of East Pakistan, in 1949 by Bengali nationalists Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Shamsul Huq.
During this period, Sikorsky helicopter services of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) were utilised to deliver mail in East Pakistan.
He cautioned that if Urdu was made the only state language of Pakistan, the educated people of East Pakistan would turn 'uneducated" overnight.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled domestic flight from Dacca to Faridpur in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) operated by a Sikorsky S-61 twin-engined helicopter.
Race Davies (born 10 August 1962 in Moglabazar, Sylhet, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), is a British actress, artist, and furniture designer.
The Mujahid militants began their insurgent activities in the Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships (Mayu region) of Burma that lies on Burma-East Pakistan border.
As Major-General, he commanded the combantant 1st Armoured Division during the 1965 September war against India and posted in East-Pakistan shortly after the war was ended.
On 16 December 1971, Lt. Gen A. A. K. Niazi, CO of Pakistan Armed Forces located in East Pakistan signed the Instrument of Surrender handing over the command of his forces to Indian Army under General Jagjit Singh Aurora.
Uddin was born in Maulvi Bazar, Sylhet, Sylhet, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) where he received his education in high school.
He commanded Operation Chavinda in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 and was ordered to command the Pakistan Armed Forces in East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Situated two kilometres inside the International Border across the River Surma, Atgram served as a major road communication centre at the eastern edge of Sylhet Division of East Pakistan, connecting it with Zakiganj to the south opposite the Indian Border town of Karimganj.
He visited India and East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh) for two years in 1971–72 to study first hand the Brahmo Samaj and published a book, The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind in 1979 by Princeton University Press.
These were mounted by Mukti Bahini, mainly former members of East Pakistan's regular forces, but failed to make any impression.
He served as the Minister of Health and Social Welfare (East Pakistan) in Ataur Rahman Khan's cabinet (1956–58).
It was later renamed the East Pakistan Legislative Assembly and would be succeeded by the Jatiyo Sangshad in 1971.
Most first-class matches in East Pakistan were played at Dacca Stadium.
Fauzia Yasmin, one of the most popular vocal artists of the then East Pakistan during the 1960s
INS Vikrant played a major role in the successful Naval blockade of East Pakistan.
An initial plan, given to the Eastern Command by General Sam Manekshaw, involved an incursion into East Pakistan and the capture of the provinces of Chittagong and Khulna.
In 1954, then the East Pakistan Central Public Library was established in Dhaka, the capital city.
On his active supervision, a shipping of Sabre Jet spare parts for Chittagong, East Pakistan, was cancelled.
In late 1957 missions were staged from Kurmitola Air Field in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to parachute agents into Tibet.
Dass first appeared for East Pakistan in a match played against the Pakistan national cricket team during the 1952–53 season.
Shahed Ali Patwary (Bengali শহীদ আলী পাটোয়ারী; 1899-1958) Deputy Speaker of East Pakistan Assembly
He was also the Deputy Director of tourism department, founder Director of Pakistan International Airlines and the Chief of Public Relations of East Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation.
The crisis precipitated in March 1971 when rising political discontent and cultural nationalism in East Pakistan was met by Yahya Khan with what has come to be called Operation Searchlight.
Sensing a deteriorating military scenario with the move of Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant close to East Pakistan, the Pakistan Navy launched a covert reconnaissance mission codenamed "Operation Falcon".