Tarique Rahman said since Ziaur Rahman was a member of the armed forces, those who will join the armed forces in the future; those who will come with an oath to protect the independence, sovereignty, ...

New textbooks will say that Ziaur Rahman, not Bangabandhu Mujibur Rahman, proclaimed Bangladesh independence on March 26 ...

KM Shafiullah, a sector commander of the 1971 Liberation War and retired major general, has passed away at the age of 91 ...

Today is the 89th anniversary of the birth of Bangladesh Nationalist Party founder Ziaur Rahman. The party has announced ...

Image Source : AP Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's painting ... the announcement and that Ziaur Rahman, who was an Army major and later a sector commander of the Liberation War, merely read out the ...

while Ziaur Rahman, then serving as an Army major and subsequent sector commander during the Liberation War, simply delivered the announcement following Mujib's directives. Previously, Bangladesh ...

In 1978, during Ziaur’s reign as Bangladesh's President, official history was changed for the first time to proclaim Ziaur as the person who made the Declaration of Independence. Ziaur Rahman ...

"The documents of the Liberation War, the then Indian leaders, and the first post-independence documentary prepared by the then information ministry show evidence in favour of Ziaur Rahman making ...

As per reports, the new textbooks in 2025 will now credit Ziaur Rahman instead of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as the one who declared the country’s independence in 1971 The Tribune, now published ...

Bangladesh has changed its history in the text books for primary and secondary students which state that the independence in 1971 was declared by former army major and president Ziaur Rahman.

Subsequently, rival insurgents killed Mosharraf. After several successive coups and counter-coups, General Ziaur Rahman ultimately gained control on November 7.