A report on Bengalis in Pakistan

Pakistani Bengalis (পাকিস্তানি বাঙালি, ) are Pakistani citizens of Bengali heritage, who had lived in either West Pakistan or East Pakistan prior to 1971 or who migrated from Bangladesh after 1971.

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Pakistan People's Party

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The Pakistan People's Party (abbr.

The Pakistan People's Party (abbr.

4 year old Fraz Wahlah, with his father MS Wahlah behind him, holding Peoples Party flag & leading an MRD protest against General Zia's martial law shortly before his arrest making him youngest prisoner of the military dictator.
American Vice President and Democratic Party leader Joe Biden meeting with the integral leadership of the PPP in Islamabad, 2011

Its manifesto, titled 'Islam is our Religion; Democracy is our Politics; Socialism is our Economy; Power Lies with the People' was written by Bengali communist J. A. Rahim, and published on 9 December 1967.

The ancient political divisions of the Ganges delta.

Bengalis

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Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

The ancient political divisions of the Ganges delta.
Parts of the Charyapada, a collection of ancient Buddhist hymns which mention the Bengalis, in display at the Rajshahi College Library.
Depiction of Gangaridai on a map by 11th-century polymath Ptolemy.
Atiśa is recognised as one of the greatest figures of classical Buddhism, having inspired Buddhist thought from Tibet to Sumatra.
Ghazi Pir is thought to have lived in the Sundarbans some time between the 12th to 13th century.
15th-century Portuguese painting of "Bengalis".
The Bengali artillery at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
A painting by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya displaying a syce of Bengal holding two carriage horses.
A Bengali woman in Dhaka clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century.
W.C. Bonnerjee, co-founder and first president of Indian National Congress.
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, the co-founder and inaugural president of the Awami League.
Dean Mahomed is credited for introducing shampoo to the Europeans.
Large numbers of Bengalis have settled and established themselves in Banglatown.
I'tisam-ud-Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.
Regional dialects form one of the determiners to the social stratification of Bengalis.
Bengali schoolboys in the port city of Chittagong.
Eid prayers in Dhaka.
Durga Puja in Kolkata.
Harvesting preparation in Bangladesh.
A sculpture of the Nawab of Bengal's Royal Peacock Barge in Murshidabad.
Traditional way of weaving Jamdani.
A Bengali man sporting a simple black sherwani.
Artistes from Purulia district of West Bengal performs Chhau dance
Satyajit Ray, eminent film director who has made Bengali films popular all over the world
Gitanjali intro featuring its author Rabindranath Tagore
The application of mehndi onto one's hand hosts a ceremony of itself during Bengali wedding seasons.
A Bengali groom partaking in a supplication during his wedding.
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Qazi Azizul Haque is recognised for his contributions to the development of modern fingerprint biometrics, a discovery of worldwide importance.
Meghnad Saha, J C Bose, J C Ghosh, Snehamoy Dutt, S N Bose, D M Bose, N R Sen, J N Mukherjee, N C Nag
A sculpture honoring Fazlur Khan at the Willis Tower
A lathi khela event taking place in Tangail.
A Nouka Baich competition taking place in the monsoon season.
Mohammed Salim, the first South Asian footballer to play for a foreign club. Due to playing in bare feet, he is having them bandaged by Jimmy McMenemy in 1936.
Cricketer Shakib Al Hasan is currently crowned the world's best all-rounder in all formats for ODI cricket, and one of the greatest of all times.

The global Bengali diaspora (Bangladeshi Bengalis and Indian Bengalis) have well-established communities in the Middle East, Pakistan, Myanmar, the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaysia, Italy, Singapore, Maldives, Canada, Australia, Japan and South Korea.

East Pakistan

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Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which nowadays is split up between India and Bangladesh.

Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which nowadays is split up between India and Bangladesh.

East Pakistan was a key part of SEATO
Suhrawardy (middle) with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
Elizabeth II, seen here visiting Chittagong in 1961, was Pakistan's Queen until 1956.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman announcing the Six Points
Surrender of Pakistan
Yahya Khan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1971
East and West Pakistan
The Kaptai Dam in 1965
President Ayub Khan (left) with Bengali industrialist Abul Kashem Khan (right) in Chittagong
Entrance to the Adamjee Jute Mills, the world's largest jute processing plant, in 1950
The Daily Ittefaq edited by Tofazzal Hossain was the leading Bengali newspaper in Pakistan
The first Bangladeshi flag was hoisted on 23 March 1971 across East Pakistan, as a protest on Republic Day
The Indo-East Pakistan border as shown by the U.S. Army, c. 1960.
Central business district in Dacca, 1960s
Chittagong Port in 1960
Baitul Mukarram Market Area, Dacca, 1967
Pakistani banknotes included Bengali script until 1971
A poster of the East Pakistan Helicopter Service
Third president of Pakistan, Yahya Khan with Richard Nixon in 1970

In memorial of East Pakistan, the East-Pakistan diaspora in Pakistan established the East-Pakistan colony in Karachi, Sindh.

Karachi

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Largest city in Pakistan and the twelfth-largest city in the world.

Largest city in Pakistan and the twelfth-largest city in the world.

The 15th–18th century Chaukhandi tombs are located 29 km east of Karachi.
The Manora Fort, built-in 1797 to defend Karachi, was captured by the British on 3February 1839 and upgraded 1888–1889.
An 1897 image of Karachi's Rampart Row street in Mithadar
Some of Karachi's most recognized structures, such as Frere Hall, date from the British Raj.
Karachi features several examples of colonial-era Indo-Saracenic architecture, such as the KMC Building.
Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina in Karachi 14 August 1947
Satellite view of Karachi 2010
Hawke's Bay, west of Karachi
Clifton Skyline at night
The Arabian Sea influences Karachi's climate, providing the city with more moderate temperatures compared to the interior Sindh province.
The Karachi Chamber of Commerce Building. Central Karachi features several such buildings dating from the colonial era.
Much of Karachi's skyline is decentralized, with some growth in traditionally suburban areas.
The former State Bank of Pakistan building was built during the colonial era.
Karachi is home to large numbers of descendants of refugees and migrants from Hyderabad, in southern India, who built a small replica of Hyderabad's famous Charminar monument in Karachi's Bahadurabad area.
Abdullah Shah Ghazi, an 8th Century Sufi mystic, is the patron saint of Karachi.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, built-in 1881, serves as the seat of the Archdiocese of Karachi.
The Swaminarayan Temple is the largest Hindu temple in Karachi.
Nagan Chowrangi interchange is a major intersection in northern Karachi.
Lyari Expressway Interchange
Karachi's Cantonment railway station is one of the city's primary transport hubs.
Greeline Metrobus Station
Karachi Circular Railway
Karachi's Jinnah International Airport is the busiest and second largest airport in Pakistan.
The Port of Karachi is one of South Asia's largest and busiest deep-water seaports.
Bai Virbaijee Soparivala (B.V.S.) Parsi High School
The D. J. Sindh Government Science College is one of Karachi's oldest universities and dates from 1887.
Aga Khan University's hospital.
The famous "Priest-King" statue of the Indus Valley Civilization is displayed at Karachi's National Museum of Pakistan.
Built as a home for a wealthy Hindu businessman, the Mohatta Palace is now a museum open to the public.
Built by Hindus under British rule, the Gymkhana Building was repurposed to house the National Academy of Performing Arts.
The Tooba Mosque. Karachi saw construction of several such modernist style buildings in the 1950s and 1960s.
The former US Embassy, designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra
The National Stadium in Karachi
At a height of {{convert|300|m|ft}}, Bahria Icon Tower is the tallest skyscraper in Pakistan.
Lucky One Mall is the largest shopping mall in Pakistan as well as in South Asia with an area of about 3.4 million square feet.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lmkt.com/south-asias-largest-mall-lucky-one-selects-lmkt-to-deploy-gpon-solution/|title=South Asia's largest mall, Lucky One selects LMKT to deploy GPON Solution|date=18 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pakiholic.com/photos-facts-lucky-one-mall/|title=21 Amazing Photos and Facts About Lucky One Mall Karachi – The Biggest Shopping Mall in Pakistan|last=Khan|first=Haris|date=2017-06-04|website=Paki Holic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613125623/https://pakiholic.com/photos-facts-lucky-one-mall/|archive-date=13 June 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Millenium Mall
Karachi's downtown is centred on I. I. Chundrigar Road.
Many corporations are located in Defence and Clifton.
Mazar-e-Quaid
Karachi Port Trust Building
Khaliq Dina Hall
Empress Market
Ocean Tower
Frere Hall
Merewether Clock Tower
Katrak Bandstand at the Jehangir Kothari Parade
Dolmen Twin Towers
Grand Jamia Mosque
Habib Bank Plaza
Teen Talwar Monument Clifton

Karachi is home to more than two million Bangladeshi immigrants, a million Afghan refugees, and up to 400,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar.

Bhutto in 1994

Benazir Bhutto

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Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996.

Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996.

Bhutto in 1994
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, her father, was the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the founding chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.
Bhutto took her undergraduate degree at Radcliffe College, Harvard
At the University of Oxford, Bhutto stayed at Lady Margaret Hall for her undergraduate studies
While in exile, Bhutto lived in central London's Barbican Estate
In 1987, Bhutto married Asif Ali Zardari (pictured here in 2008)
The flag of the Pakistan People's Party, which Bhutto co-chaired after her father's execution
Benazir Bhutto on a visit to Washington, D.C. in 1989. As a politician she took to wearing the white dupatta on her head, a political move to attract support from Islamic clerics.
Nawaz Sharif, a conservative who had been loyal to Zia, remained a constant nemesis of Bhutto's throughout her career
Benazir at an award ceremony in 1990
Bhutto with United States congressman Gary Ackerman at his office in Washington, c. 1990
At the 1993 meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Cyprus
Bhutto with venture financier and hedge-fund manager Mansoor Ijaz, at Prime Minister's House, December 1995
Bhutto in 1994 on a visit to Spain
The total GDP per capita as a percentage of the U.S. GDP per capita stood between 8.4% (in the 1970s) and 8.3% (in 1993–96), periods of nationalisation.
The GDP growth rate was at ~4.37% in 1993, which fell to ~1.70% in 1996, before Bhutto's dismissal.
Benazir Bhutto in the United States, 1989
Benazir Bhutto with the Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi, 2003
In 1999, Pervez Musharraf launched a military coup and became the country's President.
Benazir Bhutto handing over corruption references against Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif to Abdul Jaleel, Director Special Enquiries at the Ehtesab Commission, Islamabad, 1997.
Bhutto being interviewed during the Socialist International meeting in 2007.
Bhutto visiting the famous shrine of Golra Sharif on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, 6 December 2007
Bhutto (center) speaking to supporters outside her house, November 2007
The Bhutto family mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, where Bhutto was buried alongside several members of her family
A memorial to Bhutto erected at the site of her assassination, featuring a portrait framed by pink tiles.
Bhutto meeting with M. M. Chandio in 1996
Bhutto photographed in 1988. Allen stated that had Bhutto died that year, "she would be remembered as a shining example of what youth, fortitude, and idealism can accomplish even in the most brutal and repressive political culture."
Bhutto embarking from an airplane at Andrews Air Force Base during her 1989 state visit to the United States. She carried her son; her husband followed behind.
Benazir Bhutto memorial coin, 2008 commemorative coin of Pakistan

Benazir attributed this economic inequality to be a result of ongoing and continuous illegal Bangladeshi immigration.

Alamgir (singer)

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Alamgir Haq, usually referred to as just Alamgir ; born 11 August 1955), is a Bengali Pakistani singer-songwriter, guitarist, and one of the pioneers of pop music in Pakistan.

Rahman on the poster of the film Chanda (1962)

Rehman (Pakistani actor)

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Rahman on the poster of the film Chanda (1962)
Rehman in 1960s
Rehman in 1960s

Abdur Rahman (known as Rahman; 27 February 1937 – 18 July 2005) was a Pakistani-Bangladeshi actor and film Director.

Hasan Jahangir

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Hassan Jahangir (born 1 July 1962) is a Bengali-Pakistani pop singer.

Begum Shaista Ikramullah

Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah

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Begum Shaista Ikramullah

Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (22 July 1915 – 11 December 2000) was a Bengali Pakistani politician from Bengal, diplomat and author.

Machar Colony

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Unplanned settlement in Karachi, Pakistan, located near the Port of Karachi and Lyari.

Unplanned settlement in Karachi, Pakistan, located near the Port of Karachi and Lyari.

A large majority of residents are Bengali, although there are minorities of Afghans, Kutchis, Pashtuns, Punjabis, Rohingya, and Sindhis.