Liberation War veterans of Indian Army to visit Bangladesh
A 10-member team of liberation war veterans led by Lt Gen (retd) JFR Jacob of Indian Army along with their spouses will visit Bangladesh on the occasion of 37th Independence and National Day, says an ISPR press release.
They will visit Bangladesh at the invitation of Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed. During the visit the war veterans will call on chief of army staff.
The team is likely to visit various battle sites and other places of historic importance.
The visiting war veterans are Lt Gen (retd) PN Kathpalia, Lt Gen (retd) GS Bakshi, Maj Gen (retd) RK Khanna, Maj Gen (retd) Laxman Singh, Maj Gen (retd) Ashok Verma Kalyan, Brig (retd) Amrit Kapur
They will visit Bangladesh at the invitation of Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed. During the visit the war veterans will call on chief of army staff.
The team is likely to visit various battle sites and other places of historic importance.
The visiting war veterans are Lt Gen (retd) PN Kathpalia, Lt Gen (retd) GS Bakshi, Maj Gen (retd) RK Khanna, Maj Gen (retd) Laxman Singh, Maj Gen (retd) Ashok Verma Kalyan, Brig (retd) Amrit Kapur
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 Lt Gen (retd) JFR Jacob of Indian Army Friends once more Pranay Sharma Monday, March 24, 2008 20:10 IST Warm ties between India and Bangladesh are emerging again after a long gap Symbols often play as important a role as words in diplomacy. Bangladesh has chosen one that could help strengthen ties with India. Nearly four decades after independence, Dhaka has decided to honour members of the Indian army who played a key role in its Liberation Struggle of 1971. Lieutenant General JFR Jacob, who was the chief of staff of the Indian army's eastern command, with six of his former colleagues — all now retired — will be in Dhaka on March 26, Bangladesh's National Day. They are to be honoured with medals for their part in helping Bangladesh emerge as an independent nation out of East Pakistan. From the time of Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman, the founder-figure of Bangladesh, Dhaka has acknowledged the role played by India in its Liberation Struggle. The first ever attempt to invite army personnel to Dhaka to honour them has come from Bangladesh army chief, General Moeen U Ahmed. It is the Bangladesh army that now supports the caretaker government of Fakhruddin Ahmed in Dhaka. General Ahmed's move is both politically savvy and, some would say, morally correct. The support by India to Bangladesh during the Liberation Struggle has long faded from memory. Over 50 per cent of the population was born after independence; those who preceded it remember India more as the 'big bully' of the region than as the liberator. In the past decades, both under army regimes as well as democratically elected governments in Bangladesh, Dhaka carefully erected an anti-Indian plank. It was seen by New Delhi as moving closer to China and, more importantly, to Pakistan. Many in the Indian establishment felt that this was due to strong pro-Pakistani elements in the Bangladesh army. |
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