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Explanation

On 16 December 1971, East Pakistan was liberated from Pakistan as the newly independent state of Bangladesh.

East Pakistan was the eastern provincial wing of Pakistan between 1947 and 1971.

Its land borders were with India and Burma, with a coastline on the Bay of Bengal.

India firstly recognized to Bangladesh

Explanation

The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company

East India Company was established on December 31, 1600.

Explanation

• In the elections of 1970, the Awami League won 167 of 169 East Pakistan seats in the National Assembly
• But none of West Pakistan's 138 seats.
• It also won 288 of the 300 provincial assembly seats in East Pakistan.
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Explanation

On 16 December 1971, East Pakistan was liberated from Pakistan as the newly independent state of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is the new name of East Pakistan

The history of East Bengal and East Pakistan from 1947 to 1971

The territory of East Pakistan was handed in the Simla Agreement

Explanation

First factory at Surat, India in 1608

The first factory at Surat name Ship Hector, Commanded by William Hawkins

A few years had established a permanent factory there.

Explanation

Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra presented the Bogra Formula in 1953 to resolve differences between East and West Pakistan over constitutional representation, particularly in the national legislature.

It aimed to provide parity between the two wings of the country.

Explanation

The Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej rivers do not enter Pakistan but are instead given exclusively to India under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960:

• Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej (Given to India)
• Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab (Given to Pakistan)

Panjnad means "five rivers"

Above Mithankot, the Indus River receives from Panjnad 

Panjnad falls in River Indus

The length of Panjnad is: 71 km

The Panjnad Rive is located end of the Bahawalpur 

 Panjnad Headworks has three canals:

1. Panjnad canal
2. Abbassia canal
3. Abbassia link canal

Explanation

The East India Company (EIC) was established in 1600 and effectively dissolved in 1858 after the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Duration: ~258 years

Key Phases:

1600–1757: Trade monopoly (spices, textiles).

1757–1858: Political control (Battle of Plassey to Crown rule).

Explanation

Pakistan lies to the east of Afghanistan, with a shared border known as the Durand Line.

It was established in 1893.

This border stretches approximately 2,670 kilometers (1,660 miles).

Explanation

At Qasim Bazar in Bengal was the East India Company given permission to trade and build a factory by the Mughals in 1651.

East India Company established a factory at Qasim Bazar by the permission Mughals .