The nation is observing the 'Genocide Day' in a somber mood today, commemorating the brutalities and cowardly attacks carried out by the Pakistani occupation forces on the unarmed Bangalees on the black night of March 25 in 1971.
The Daily Star is paying a tribute to Sydney H Schanberg, a correspondent of The New York Times who upheld before the world the atrocities of Pakistani military in Bangladesh in 1971 through his reporting.
On March 25, 1971, armed with tanks, mortars and armoured vehicles a Pakistani military convoy picked up Professor Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, the then provost of Jagannath Hall, after cordoning off the entire Dhaka University campus with tanks, mortars and armed vehicles.
Supreme Court is set to deliver its verdict tomorrow on an appeal filed by death row war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed challenging the sentences handed down to him.
Pakistan's military warplanes has pounded a militant hideout in a troubled tribal region along the Afghan border, killing 22 "terrorists."
The nation is observing the 'Genocide Day' in a somber mood today, commemorating the brutalities and cowardly attacks carried out by the Pakistani occupation forces on the unarmed Bangalees on the black night of March 25 in 1971.
The Daily Star is paying a tribute to Sydney H Schanberg, a correspondent of The New York Times who upheld before the world the atrocities of Pakistani military in Bangladesh in 1971 through his reporting.
On March 25, 1971, armed with tanks, mortars and armoured vehicles a Pakistani military convoy picked up Professor Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, the then provost of Jagannath Hall, after cordoning off the entire Dhaka University campus with tanks, mortars and armed vehicles.
Supreme Court is set to deliver its verdict tomorrow on an appeal filed by death row war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed challenging the sentences handed down to him.
Pakistan's military warplanes has pounded a militant hideout in a troubled tribal region along the Afghan border, killing 22 "terrorists."