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Niazi forced to surrender ‘before people of Dhaka’: Jacob |
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The Pakistani general, whose surrender signalled the libera¬tion of Bangladesh, did so much against his wishes “before the people of Dhaka”, says the Indian officer who organised in 1971 modern history’s only public surrender by a vanquished force.
Pakistan’s Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi was reluctant and wanted to discuss “only a ceasefire under the UN”. Later, he agreed to surrender, but in his office.
Niazi later claimed that he had been “blackmailed” into surrendering at a public ceremony, wa ...
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