Rajshahi was freed on this day, two days after the country s victory in its Liberation War.
Geias Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury Bir Bikrom, then army captain and commander of sub-sector-4 under sector-7, declared Rajshahi s freedom from the Pakistani occupation forces, hoisting the flag of independent Bangladesh at Madrassa Maidan in the afternoon of December 18, 1971, said wartime journalist Ahmed Shafi Uddin in Rajshahi.
Ahmed Shafi Uddin was the Chief Reporter of Weekly Sonar Desh at that time. Pakistani army issued red warrants against all journalists of Sonar Desh forcing them to take shelter at rural hideouts. He returned to his town hideout weeks before the Victory.