Staff Reporter
The Pakistani occupation army had surrendered to the Bangladesh-India Joint Command in Dhaka on this day (December 16) in 1971, ending the nine-month long bloody Liberation War and giving birth to independent Bangladesh.
In the afternoon on December 16 in 1971, Chief of Pakistan Eastern Command Lt General AAK Niazi surrendered to the Commander of Joint Command Lt General Jagjit Singh Arora at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka city.
About 30 lakh people sacrificed their lives during the nine-month long war for the national freedom.

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