East Bengal – Bangladesh Genocide Archive https://www.genocidebangladesh.org An online archive of chronology of events, documentations, audio, video, images, media reports and eyewitness accounts of the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh in the hands of Pakistan army. Sat, 29 Oct 1955 19:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 95479874 The West Pakistan Bill had been passed, East Bengal is renamed East Pakistan https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/the-west-pakistan-bill-had-been-passed-east-bengal-is-renamed-east-pakistan/ Sat, 29 Oct 1955 19:32:17 +0000 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=79 October, 1955

The west wing provinces of the Punjab, Baluchistan, Sindh, and NWFP are grouped into one unit called West Pakistan. The West Pakistan Bill had been passed, a fortnight earlier, to give a rational basis of equality between the two wings. East Bengal is renamed East Pakistan.

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