Volume : 2, Issue : 12, December - 2013

Victory Day in Golden Letters �War of Liberation

Zahoor Ahmad Rather

Abstract :

December 16, 1971 has been written as ‘Victory Day’ in Golden Letters in the Indian history and will remain as a Golden Day for ever in the military history of our country. 93,000 soldiers of Pakistan Army surrendered before the Indian Army at one time on this day and laid down their arms; unprecedented in the realms of military history. They were taken as prisoners. It was Thursday when the ‘instrument of Surrender’ was presented by Lt Gen A K Niazi, C–in–C of Pakistan Army in East Pakistan before Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Arora at Dacca with a request to accept it. The main issue is the International war related crimes committed by the Pakistan military forces to demolish the uprising by the ‘Bengalis’; the people of East Pakistan