October – 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.

]]> 87 United Front Government dismissed https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/united-front-government-is-dismissed-by-the-governor-general-of-pakistan/ Sun, 28 Mar 1954 19:28:06 +0000 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=78 March – October, 1954:

The Bengali dominated United Front Government is dismissed by the Governor General of Pakistan because of apparently seditious remarks made by its Chief Minister A. K. Fazlul Huq. The Governor General imposes his direct rule in East Pakistan. Later the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan is also dissolved, and Mohammed Ali Bogra forms a government without a parliament. The Army’s Chief of Staff Ayub Khan becomes the Defense Minister.

Source: Uttorshuri

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