One for all , All for one

                      One for all , All for one

Bangladesh Army is the lineal descendants of the British Indian Army and Pakistan Army. At the time of the independence of Pakistan, there was not a singleBengali regiment in East Bengal. The Bangladesh Army started

its journey on the night of March 25, 1971. Qasim Malik, the Parliamentary Secretary of Pakistan reported in a defence statement that East Pakistan formed only one percent of the total strength of the Pakistan Army in 1947.

On February 15, 1948, first Bengali regiment named “East Bengal Regiment” as well as the strongest regiment off all time in Bangladesh was raised at

Kurmitola, Dhaka under the prudent leadership of Major Abdul Ghani. The glorious chapter of East Bengal Regiment may be attributed to the two major events of military history of this subcontinent. First one was in the Indo-Pak War of 1965 and the second one was repeated only six years later in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. In 1968, East Pakistan had only four Bengali regiments. Ten more Bengali battalions were raised in 1968-69. In 1971, there were about 412,000 persons in the armed services in

Pakistan, of whom 385000 were in Army, 10,000 in the Navy and 17,000 in officer’s ranks as well as other ranks.

 

  During the Liberation War, the Bengali Army formed the Mukti Fouz and played innumerable role as the nucleus of Mukti Bahini. The Bengali army conducted operations in their respective domains against the Pakistani forces from March 26, 1971. Previously, Bengali army personnel were concerned about the volatile political situation of erstwhile East Pakistan and were in touch with political leaders. When the Pakistani occupational forces attacked on Bengali, the EBR officers and soldiers along with police and mass people demonstrated spontaneous revolt and resistant movement in the different parts of countries without any organized and combined approach.

Bangladesh Army is that place where both to live and to die is honor.