Dec 18, 1971: Government's vanguard arrives in free Dhaka

After a long and bloody armed struggle, Bangladesh emerged as a free and independent nation on the world map, with the surrender of the Pakistani army on Dec 16, 1971, bringing the Liberation War to an end. But the first government of Bangladesh had yet to return to the country from exile.

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