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§ indicates events in the internal resistance movement linked to the Indo-Pakistani War. ‡ indicates events in the Indo-Pakistani War linked to the internal resistance movement in Bangladesh.
Operation Barisal was a code-name of naval operation conducted by Pakistan Navy intended to take control of the city of Barisal, East Pakistan from the Mukti Bahini and the dissidents of the Pakistan Defence Forces. It was the part of Operation Searchlight.[1]
Since the starting of Searchlight, the Mukti Bahini had been staging large scale sabotage missions, disturbing the communications and signals operatives in East Pakistan. Naval Intelligence found traces to the city of Barisal, therefore decided to conduct the operation. The operation was part of Searchlight and was to provide logistic support to the Pakistan Army, by first deploying the Pakistan Navy's gun boats and navy personnel on grounds.
OperationBarisal was a code-name of naval operation conducted by Pakistan Navy intended to take control of the city of Barisal, East Pakistan from the...
authorised by the Yahya administration to launch the military operation (codename: Searchlight and Barisal) in March 1971 in a view of curbing political opposition...
rivers Jamuna, Padma and Meghna). After Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight and OperationBarisal to curb the Awami League-led political movement in March...
districts in the initial months of the war, including Brahmanbaria, Faridpur, Barisal, Mymensingh, Comilla and Kushtia among others. With the support of the...
retirement from the Navy and quietly settled in Karachi. Once Operation Searchlight and OperationBarisal commenced, Air Marshal Masud flew to West Pakistan, and...
Combatants Campaigns and theaters Pakistan Eastern Command Operation Searchlight OperationBarisal Cable 1971 Sectors in the Bangladesh Liberation War Military...
troop movements. Some of the notable operations of the Mukti Bahini included Operation Jackpot and OperationBarisal. India intervened in the war on 3 December...
The navy and army crackdown and brutalities during Operation Searchlight and OperationBarisal and the continued killings throughout the later months...
The navy and army crackdown and brutalities during the Operation Searchlight and OperationBarisal and the continued extrajudicial killings throughout the...
BZL, ICAO: VGBR) is a domestic airport located in the southern city of Barisal in Bangladesh. GMG Airlines, Royal Bengal Airlines and United Airways previously...
Operation Searchlight was a military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan...
memories and concluded: The initial military success (Searchlight and Barisal) in regaining the law and order situation in East-Pakistan in March 1971...
Barisal Metropolitan Police Ordinance - 2006. Saiful Islam is the commissioner of Barisal Metropolitan Police. Bangladesh Parliament passed Barisal Metropolitan...
The Port of Barisal, officially known as Barisal River Port is the second largest and busiest river port in Bangladesh after Dhaka in terms of passenger...
sub-division. On 25 April 1971, the Pakistan Armed Forces launched OperationBarisal to capture Barisal. On 26 April, they occupied the Patuakhali district town...
government from 1996 to 2001. In October 2002, during Operation Clean Heart, Abdullah's house in Barisal City was raided by security personal led by Major...
Mahmudul Haque were killed as Bangladesh Air Force PT-6 aircraft crashed near Barisal Airport. 8 April 2012: A pilot officer Shariful Haque died and a squadron...
through its bus depots in Chittagong, Bogra, Comilla, Pabna, Rangpur, Barisal, and Sylhet. It also operates intra-city bus services in many major cities...
Nagar. Sea Hawks from the carrier INS Vikrant also struck Chittagong, Barisal and Cox's Bazar, destroying the eastern wing of the Pakistan Navy and effectively...
largest upazila (sub-district) of southern Bangladesh's Barisal District. Hizla Upazila (barisal district) area 515.36 km2, located in between 22°50' and...
Goalundo Ghat via Gede-Darshana, and the Barisal Express to Khulna via Benapole–Petrapole—continued operation between the two countries until 1965, when...
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