Bangladesh Liberation War

Bangladesh Liberation War
Clockwise from top left: Martyred Intellectuals Memorial, Bangladesh Forces howitzer, Surrender of Pakistan to India-Bangladesh Allied Forces, the sunken PNS Ghazi
Date 26 March – 16 December 1971 (8 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) Location Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), the Bay of Bengal, West Pakistan, the Arabian Sea, parts of North India Result Bangladeshi and Indian victory Collapse of the Pakistan Eastern Command Establishment of the sovereignty of Bangladesh Territorial changes East Pakistan secedes from Pakistan and becomes Bangladesh
Belligerents
Bangladesh Mukti Bahini  India (from 3rd December, 1971)	Pakistan Pakistan Armed Forces Paramilitary forces: Jamaat-e-Islami Shanti committee Razakars Al-Badr Al-Shams
Commanders and leaders
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tajuddin Ahmad M. A. G. Osmani K. M. Shafiullah Ziaur Rahman Khaled Mosharraf Sam Manekshaw J.S. Aurora J. F. R. Jacob	A.A.K. Niazi (POW) Rao Farman Ali  (POW) Mohammad Shariff (POW) Patrick D. Callaghan  (POW) Mohd Jamshed  (POW) Tikka Khan Ghulam Azam (Shanti committee) Motiur Rahman Nizami (Al-Badr)
Strength
Bangladesh Forces: 175,000 Mujib Force: 10,000 Indian Armed Forces: 250,000	Pakistan Armed Forces: ~ 365,000 (90,000+ in East Pakistan) Paramilitary forces: ~25,000
Casualties and losses
Bangladesh Forces and civilians: around 3 million India: 1,426 KIA 3,611 Wounded (Official) 1,525 KIA 4,061 Wounded	93,000POWs (56,694 Armed Forces 12,192 Paramilitary 24,114 Civilians)
Civilian death: Estimates range between 300,000 and 3 million.

Bangladeshi and Indian victory

Bangladesh

 Pakistan

Paramilitary forces:

Pakistan Armed Forces: ~ 365,000 (90,000+ in East Pakistan)

The Bangladesh Liberation War (Bengali: মুক্তিযুদ্ধ Muktijuddho), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan and the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. It resulted in the independence of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The war began after the Pakistani military junta based in West Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight against the people of East Pakistan on the night of 25 March 1971. It pursued the systematic elimination of nationalist Bengali civilians, students, intelligentsia, religious minorities and armed personnel. The junta annulled the results of the 1970 elections and arrested Prime Minister-elect Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

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