Pakistan has always found it challenging to defend East Pakistan. Indian Navy blockade isolated East Pakistan from supplies and escape routes. INS Vikrant launched air strikes, crippling port ...

US Congressman introduces resolution to recognise 1971 Bangladesh atrocities by Pakistani forces as genocide, citing Operation Searchlight and Blood Telegram.

Fifty-five years ago, Pakistan launched “Operation Searchlight”- a brutal crackdown in East Pakistan to suppress political dissent. The targets included students, intellectuals, political activists, ...

Only four warships have been torpedoed since World War II. One of them was India's INS Khukri, the first and only Indian Navy vessel to be lost in action. The sinking of Iran's IRIS Dena by a US ...

Indian Army spilt Pakistan into two when it liberated Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) by defeating the Pakistani Army in the 1971 India-Pakistan war, forcing enemy troops to surrender and splitting a ...

Iran has populated the Strait of Hormuz, a key energy route, with sea mines. The 1971 War saw the most significant use of sea mines since World War Two in which India sank over 100,000 tonnes of ...

Months before the Indian Army launched its campaign, the Border Security Force was already facing gunfire along the frontier and quietly helping shape the Bangladesh liberation struggle.