Search Results - "East Pakistan"
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Bangladesh: civil resistance in the struggle for independence, 1948-1971
Published 2013“…These two movements are viewed as important "shapers" of Bengali national identity and "enablers" of the emergence of a quasi-independent East Pakistan by the time violent struggle broke out on March 25, 1971 ' I91 …”
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From fish and forest to salt and shrimp: the changing nature of coastal development policy and its impact on coastal resources and communities in Southeast Bangladesh
Published 2005“…Through a case study of the Chakoria Sundarban, it illustrates the piecemeal and fragmented approach to coastal development of the East Pakistan and Bangladesh governments since 1950 to the 1990s. …”
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WMO Assessment of Weather and Climate Mortality Extremes: Lightning, Tropical Cyclones, Tornadoes, and Hail
Published 2017“…After recommending for acceptance of only events after 1873 (the formation of the predecessor of the WMO), the committee evaluated and accepted the following mortality extremes: 1) “highest mortality (indirect strike) associated with lightning” as the 469 people killed in a lightning-caused oil tank fire in Dronka, Egypt, on 2 November 1994; 2) “highest mortality directly associated with a single lightning flash” as the lightning flash that killed 21 people in a hut in Manica Tribal Trust Lands, Zimbabwe (at time of incident, eastern Rhodesia), on 23 December 1975; 3) “highest mortality associated with a tropical cyclone” as the Bangladesh (at time of incident, East Pakistan) cyclone of 12–13 November 1970 with an estimated death toll of 300 000 people; 4) “highest mortality associated with a tornado” as the 26 April 1989 tornado that destroyed the Manikganj district, Bangladesh, with an estimated death toll of 1300 individuals; and 5) “highest mortality associated with a hailstorm” as the storm occurring near Moradabad, India, on 30 April 1888 that killed 246 people. …”
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Engineering Ethics in Islam: An Evaluative and Comparative Study Between Cod of Ethics of Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB)and Code of Professional Conduct of Board of Eng...
Published 2011“…Following these societies, engineers of Bangladesh (previous East Pakistan) established Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB). …”
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S M A Rashidul Hasan
Published 2011“…In order to regain his Indian citizenship, he surrendered his Pakistani passport – which he happened to have because of his stayal in East Pakistan after the partition of 1947 – to the government of West Bengal. …”
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Syed Sajjad Husain
Published 2011“…However, his stance for the unity of Pakistan during the liberation war of the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) earned him huge controversy and disrepute, for which he had to suffer physical assaults and imprisonment and finally live in exile for a number of years after the country’s independence. …”
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Bangabandhu and Bangladesh: analysing contemporary society and politics
Published 2016“…Pakistan comprised of two different regions, namely West Pakistan and East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), which remained geographically disjointed from each other with a distance of two thousand miles across the Indian Territory. …”
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Linking poverty and environment as causes of conflict: a case study of Pakistan
Published 2016“…This paper presents a theoretical analysis of an International conflict i.e. East Pakistan Crisis, 1971, and reveals that un-equal development creates conflict in society. …”
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