Pakistani troops surrendered to allied Indian and Bangladesh forces on December 16, 1971 evening after a brief negotiation, the prelude of which has been sketched by a former Indian military captain describing first moments of victor’s interactions with the defeated army.<\/p>\n
The then young captain Nirbhay Sharma, who subsequently became a lieutenant general, said he was in the first group of Indian soldiers to step into Dhaka city as part of advanced allied troops.<\/p>\n
Decades after the episode he came up with a signed memoir, describing a little known story of events of the first hours of the day, acknowledging that Bangladesh’s freedom fighter Abdul Kader Siddique also accompanied the advanced allied troops.<\/p>\n
Sharma, who later served as India’s governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram, said they had entered “Dacca” through the Mirpur Bridge to make their way to Pakistan’s military headquarters.<\/p>\n
But some events upset their first attempt to reach Pakistani commander Lieutenant General AAK Niazi, to whom they, however, reached subsequently carrying a message from Major General Gandharv Nagra, India’s general officer commanding for 1010 area.<\/p>\n
Sharma said on their second journey, this time along with his commanding officer of India’s 2 Para Battalion Colonel Pannu and few others, they succeeded in reaching the message, again as the “first troops” to enter the enemy held Dhaka Cantonment.\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pakistani troops surrendered to allied Indian and Bangladesh forces on December 16, 1971 evening after a brief negotiation, the prelude of which has been sketched by a former Indian military captain describing first moments of victor’s interactions with the defeated army. The then young captain Nirbhay Sharma, who subsequently became a lieutenant general, said he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50032,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50029\/revisions\/50032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}