The US-based Hindu American Foundation (HAF) said it has received a threatening message from the digital analysis wing of Pakistan's Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
The PTA demanded that HAF should remove its web page related to the 1971's Bengali Hindu Genocide.
The Washington DC-based Hindu body had recently launched the ‘Remembering the Lost, Celebrating Survival’ commemoration website.
1971 saw Pakistani troops committing atrocities in the then East Pakistan leading to an international humanitarian crisis. Several million died due to the actions of the Pakistani army but ultimately Bangladesh gained its independence.
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Members of the Special Frontier Force, including soldiers from Tibet, during the 1971 India-Pakistan War, in this dated photograph. (File Photo) By PTI
KOLKATA: A two-storied non-descript house at 57/8 Ballygunge Circular Road, a stone s throw away from the Tripura royal palace in the heart of this city, stands mute witness to an operation in the run-up to the 1971 war that gave the Bangladesh government-in-exile a radio station to broadcast hope to its beleaguered people facing genocide by the Pakistan Army.
Fifty years ago, on this day, a motley group of singers, poets and radio broadcasters made their way to the rented house, where a makeshift studio and dormitory for the artistes had been set up. The day was chosen in part because it was the birthday of the man who would become Bangladesh s national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
A two-storied non-descript house at 57/8 Ballygunge Circular Road, a stone's throw away from the Tripura royal palace in the heart of this city, stands mute witness to an operation in the run up to the 1971 war which gave the Bangladesh government-in-exile a radio station to broadcast "hope" to its beleaguered people facing genocide by the Pakistan Army.