Staff Reporter
The nation celebrated the 37th Victory Day yesterday with pomp and grandeur and a renewed pledge to build a prosperous democratic Bangladesh based on an equitable and forward-looking society.
This was the anniversary of the nation’s glorious victory over Pakistani occupation forces in the Liberation War on December 16 in 1971 and the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country.
On this day in 1971, Chief of Eastern Command of the Pakistani occupation force Lt Gen AK Niazi surrendered to Commander of Bangladesh-India Joint Command Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Arora at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital.

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