East Pakistan
Britishnoun
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Bengal was divided along religious lines into predominantly Hindu West Bengal, which became part of India, and Muslim-majority East Pakistan, later becoming Bangladesh.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
In contrast, Aphaneramma fossils have been discovered in rocks of similar age in Svalbard in the Scandinavian Arctic, the Russian Far East, Pakistan, and Madagascar.
From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026
The fifth partition—in truth, a secession—was that of Pakistan itself in 1971, when East Pakistan became the new nation of Bangladesh after a bloody civil war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
In Kissinger's case, it's particularly hard to imagine how a man who started out as a Jewish refugee from the Nazis could be as conscienceless as he was about the slaughter in East Pakistan.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2023
“Therefore he lives in East Pakistan, not India.”
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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