Opinion: When Yahya Khan Threw A Champagne Party As US Dispatched ‘Big E’ For Bangladesh

Muhammad Yunus, the head of the Bangladesh interim govt, met a high-level US delegation last Sunday and requested 'support' to rebuild the country. This, despite criticism from several quarters about a 'US hand' in the student-led anti-discrimination protest.

Source : X.com/ChiefAdviserGoB

An irate United States President Richard Nixon was sitting at the Oval Office in the White House with plans to impose stringent sanctions on India and even nuke it, if needed, for waging a war against West Pakistan, now Pakistan, and helping Bangladesh, then East Pakistan. It was December 1971, and the Bangladesh Liberation War was at its peak. Sensing the anxiety, the US President’s man Friday, Henry Kissinger, who was then the US National Security Adviser, drew up the ‘Nixon