*A 10-member team of liberation war veterans led by Lt Gen (retd) JFR Jacob
of Indian Army along with their spouses will visit Bangladesh on the
occasion of 37th Independence and National Day, says an ISPR press release.
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*They will visit Bangladesh at the invitation of Chief of Army Staff General
Moeen U Ahmed. During the visit the war veterans will call on chief of army
staff.
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The team is likely to visit various battle sites and other places of
historic importance.
The visiting war veterans are Lt Gen (retd) PN Kathpalia, Lt Gen (retd) GS
Bakshi, Maj Gen (retd) RK Khanna, Maj Gen (retd) Laxman Singh, Maj Gen
(retd) Ashok Verma Kalyan, Brig (retd) Amrit Kapur
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=29232
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*Also read:*
http://www.dailynayadiganta.com/fullnews.asp?News_ID=73666&sec=1
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* Lt Gen (retd) JFR Jacob of Indian Army *
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* **Friends once more*
<http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1157431> *Pranay
Sharma *
Monday, March 24, 2008 20:10 IST
*Warm ties between India and Bangladesh are emerging again after a long gap*
*Symbols often play as important a role as words in diplomacy. Bangladesh
has chosen one that could help strengthen ties with India. Nearly four
decades after independence, Dhaka has decided to honour members of the
Indian army who played a key role in its Liberation Struggle of 1971.*
*Lieutenant General JFR Jacob, who was the chief of staff of the Indian
army's eastern command, with six of his former colleagues — all now retired
— will be in Dhaka on March 26, Bangladesh's National Day. They are to be
honoured with medals for their part in helping Bangladesh emerge as an
independent nation out of East Pakistan.*
*From the time of Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman, the founder-figure of Bangladesh,
Dhaka has acknowledged the role played by India in its Liberation Struggle. The
first ever attempt to invite army personnel to Dhaka to honour them has come
from Bangladesh army chief, General Moeen U Ahmed. It is the Bangladesh army
that now supports the caretaker government of Fakhruddin Ahmed in Dhaka.*
*General Ahmed's move is both politically savvy and, some would say, morally
correct. The support by India to Bangladesh during the Liberation Struggle
has long faded from memory. Over 50 per cent of the population was born
after independence; those who preceded it remember India more as the 'big
bully' of the region than as the liberator.*
*In the past decades, both under army regimes as well as democratically
elected governments in Bangladesh, Dhaka carefully erected an anti-Indian
plank. It was seen by New Delhi as moving closer to China and, more
importantly, to Pakistan. Many in the Indian establishment felt that this
was due to strong pro-Pakistani elements in the Bangladesh army.*
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