রাজশাহীর তানোর উপজেলার চান্দুরিয়া ইউনিয়নের একতারপুর গ্রামে শনিবার বিকেল ৫টার দিকে ১৯৭১ সালের মুক্তিযুদ্ধে ব্যবহৃত ৪১ রাউন্ড থ্রি-নট-থ্রি (.৩০৩) রাইফেলের গুলি উদ্ধার করেছে পুলিশ।
তানোর থানার ভারপ্রাপ্ত কর্মকর্তা (ওসি) আবুল হাশেম বাংলানিউজকে জানান, শনিবার সকাল থেকে উপজেলার চান্দুরিয়া ইউনিয়নের একতারপুর গ্রামের আবদুল জব্বারের মজা পুকুরে খননের সময় শ্রমিকরা পুকুরের মধ্যে বাধা অবস্থায় শক্ত বস্তু দেখে থানায় খবর দেয়।
পরে তিনি ঘটনাস্থলে গিয়ে ৪১ রাউন্ড গুলি উদ্ধার করেন।
তিনি বলেন, ‘গুলিগুলো ১৯৭১ সালের মুক্তিযুদ্ধের সময়ের। গুলির গায়ে ১৯৬৪ ও ৬৫ সালে তৈরির তারিখ রয়েছে।’

In a mood of restrained jubilation and cautious hope, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladesh officials settled down last week to tackle the immense logistical problems posed by a new peace settlement that affects the whole subcontinent. After 19 days of hard bargaining in Islamabad and New Delhi, India and Pakistan agreed—with Bangladesh concurrence—that 1) 90,000 Pakistani military and civilian prisoners of war who have been held captive in India since the end of the December 1971 Indo-Pakistani war will be sent home; 2) an estimated 200,000 Bengalis stranded in Pakistan at …

EVER since the end of the Indo-Pakistani war in December 1971, a true peace settlement on the subcontinent has been blocked by disagreement over what to do with three groups of political hostages, totaling more than 500,000.
> India is the increasingly unwilling custodian of 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war, whose upkeep so far has cost more than $20 million.
> Bangladesh, the new nation formed by dissident Bengalis in the former province of East Pakistan, has 250,000 Biharis (non-Bengali Moslems) who want to be repatriated to Pakistan.
> Pakistan, in turn, is …

THE “Voice of Thunder,” as it became known in the pre-independence days of Free Bangladesh Radio, rolled across the multitude squatting on the dry yellow grass of the Dacca race course. “If the people of Bangladesh don’t want me to contest the elections, then I don’t want to sit in the National Assembly. Any one of you can go and sit there instead of me. Shall I contest the election? Should I? If you want me to contest, then raise your hand. Raise both hands to show you want me.” …

At 5:30 a.m. last Sunday, the city of Dacca resounded with the thunder of a 31-gun salute that marked the beginning of Bangladesh’s first independence day. A year and a day earlier, on March 25, 1971, Pakistan had launched its military crackdown against rebellious East Bengal, which led to the brief, bloody war between India and Pakistan, the death of as many as 3,000,000 Bengalis—and the birth of a new nation.
Today, as TIME Correspondent William Stewart reported last week from Dacca, the Bengalis have a homeland, but they do not …

TO some Western observers, the scene stirred thoughts of Pontius Pilate deciding the fates of Jesus and Barabbas. “Do you want Mujib freed?” cried Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, at a rally of more than 100,000 supporters in Karachi. The crowd roared its assent, as audiences often do when subjected to Bhutto’s powerful oratory. Bowing his head, the President answered: “You have relieved me of a great burden.”
Thus last week Bhutto publicly announced what he had previously told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin: his decision to release his celebrated prisoner, Sheik …