14th December, 2020 09:38:35
The nation observes Martyred Intellectuals Day today paying homage to the intellectuals who were killed by the Pakistani occupation forces and their collaborators at the fag end of the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
Sensing an imminent defeat in the war, the Pakistani forces and their local aides designed to annihilate the intelligentsia to cripple the emerging nation.
On this day in 1971, Pakistani army with the help of their accomplices picked up educationists, litterateurs, journalists, physicians and cultural activists from their houses, took them blindfolded to the killing grounds and staged one of the history’s worst pogroms.