Victory Day: Sheikh Hasina's son warns of Pakistan-backed proxies in Bangladesh

Victory Day: Sheikh Hasina's son warns of Pakistan-backed proxies in Bangladesh

Dhaka: As Bangladesh observes Victory Day on Tuesday, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed warned that the “proxies of Pakistani occupational forces” have been emboldened across the country to an unprecedented extent. Victory Day commemorates December 16 1971, when Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation after the Pakistani forces surrendered to the Indian Armed Forces, ending a brutal nine-month-long war. Wazed, the former…