Operation searchlight’s efficacy revisited - Pakistan Observer

Operation searchlight’s efficacy revisited - Pakistan Observer

FIFTY-four years after it was launched—much water has flown under the bridge—the anti-Pakistan mood in Bangladesh has changed, hence it is time to re-examine the efficacy of launching Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan on 25 March 1971. Launched by the Pakistan Army, Operation Searchlight was a military action aimed at suppressing the Bengali nationalist movement in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The operation followed the refusal of West P…