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Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic ___MASK94___ of Nepal , is a landlocked central Himalayan country in South Asia . It has a population of 26 . 4 million and is the 93rd largest country by area . Bordering China in the north and India in the south , east , and west , it is the largest sovereign Himalayan state . Nepal does not border Bangladesh , which is located within only 27 km ( 17 mi ) of its southeastern tip . It neither borders Bhutan due to the Indian state of Sikkim being located in between . Nepal has a diverse geography , including fertile plains , subalpine forested hills , and eight of the world ' s ten tallest mountains , including Mount Everest , the highest point on Earth . Kathmandu is the nation ' s capital and largest city . It is a multiethnic nation with Nepali as the official language . The ___MASK69___ ( transliterated : " Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Dôl "), often abbreviated as BNP , is one of the two major contemporary political parties of Bangladesh . It was founded on September 1 , 1978 by former Bangladeshi first President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978 with a view to uniting the people with nationalist ideology of the country . Since then , the BNP won the second , fifth , sixth and eighth national elections and two Presidential elections in 1978 and 1981 . The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country , with 116 seats in the seventh national election of 1996 . It does not currently have representation in parliament after its boycott of the national election of 2014 . The Prime Minister of the People ' s ___MASK94___ of Bangladesh ( ) is the Head of the Government of Bangladesh . The Prime Minister and the Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Parliament , to their political party and ultimately to the electorate . The current Prime Minister , Sheikh Hasina Wajed , were appointed on 6 January 2009 by the President of Bangladesh . Ziaur Rahman (" Ji - yaur Rôhman "; 19 January 1936  30 May 1981 ) was a Bangladeshi politician and army general who declared the ___MASK28___ of Bangladesh on behalf of its first interim head of state Sheikh Mujibur Rahman . He later served as the 7th President of Bangladesh from 21 April 1977 until his assassination on 30 May 1981 . The Bangladesh Liberation War ('), also known as the Bangladesh War of ___MASK28___ , or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh , was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self - determination movement in East Pakistan and the 1971 Bangladesh genocide . It resulted in the ___MASK28___ of the People ' s ___MASK94___ of Bangladesh . The war began after the Pakistani ___MASK1___ junta based in West Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight against the people of East Pakistan on the night of 25 March 1971 . It pursued the systematic elimination of nationalist Bengali civilians , students , intelligentsia , religious minorities and armed personnel . The junta annulled the results of the 1970 elections and arrested Prime Minister - elect Sheikh Mujibur Rahman . Tajuddin Ahmad ( Bengali :         ) ( July 23 , 1925 -- November 3 , 1975 ) was a Bangladeshi statesman and freedom fighter . He served as the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh and lead the wartime Provisional Government during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 . Ahmad is regarded as one of the most influential and instrumental figures in the birth of Bangladesh , due to his leadership of the provisional government in 1971 , in which he united the various political , ___MASK1___ and cultural forces of Bangladeshi nationalism . A close confidante of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , Ahmad was the General Secretary of the Awami League in the late 1960s and early 1970s . He coordinated the League ' s election campaign for the Pakistani general election , 1970 , in which the League gained a historic parliamentary majority to form government . Ahmad , along with Mujib and Dr . Kamal Hossain , led negotiations with President Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for the transfer of power to the elected National Assembly . Bangladeshi nationalism is an ideology propagated by former Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman . The ideology emerged during the late 1970s and is the institutional basis of ___MASK69___ , one of the leading political parties of Bangladesh . Bangladesh ( , " The country of Bengal "), officially the People ' s ___MASK94___ of Bangladesh (                  " Gônôprôjatôntri Bangladesh "), is a country in South Asia . It shares land borders with India and Myanmar ( Burma ). Nepal , Bhutan and China are located near Bangladesh but do not share a border with it . The country ' s maritime territory in the Bay of Bengal is roughly equal to the size of its land area . Bangladesh is the world ' s eighth most populous country . Dhaka is its capital and largest city , followed by Chittagong which has the country ' s largest port . Myanmar , officially the ___MASK94___ of the ___MASK4___ of Myanmar and also known as Burma , is a sovereign state in South East Asia bordered by Bangladesh , India , China , Laos and Thailand . About one third of Myanmar ' s total perimeter of 5 , 876 km ( 3 , 651 miles ), forms an uninterrupted coastline of 1 , 930 km ( 1 , 200 miles ) along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea . The country ' s 2014 census revealed a much lower population than expected , with 51 million people recorded . Myanmar is 676 , 578 square kilometres ( 261 , 227 sq mi ) in size . Its capital city is Naypyidaw and its largest city is Yangon ( Rangoon ). Operation Searchlight was a planned ___MASK1___ operation carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in the erstwhile East Pakistan in March 1971 , which the Pakistani state justified on the basis of anti - Bihari violence by Bengalis in early March . Ordered by the central government in West Pakistan , this was seen as the sequel to " Operation Blitz " which had been launched in November 1970 . The original plan envisioned taking control of the major cities on March 26 , and then eliminating all opposition , political or ___MASK1___ , within one month . President Yahya Khan at a conference in February 1971 said " Kill three million of them and the rest will eat out of our hands ." Prolonged Bengali resistance was not anticipated by the Pakistani ___MASK1___ leaders . The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major town in Bengali hands in mid - May . The operation also precipitated the 1971 Bangladesh genocide and caused roughly 10 million refugees to flee to India as well as the death of up to 3 , 000 , 000 civilians . Bengali intelligentsia , academics and Hindus were targeted for the harshest treatment , with significant indiscriminate killing taking place . These systematic killings enraged the Bengalis , who declared independence from Pakistan , to establish the new state of Bangladesh . India , officially the ___MASK94___ of India (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by area , the second - most populous country ( with over 1 . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the southwest , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian Ocean , India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . India ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad . ___MASK68___ of nations to self - determination ( from ) is a cardinal principle in modern international law ( commonly regarded as a " jus cogens " rule ), binding , as such , on the United Nations as authoritative interpretation of the Charter  s norms . It states that nations , based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity , have ___MASK68___ to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference . This principle can be traced to the Atlantic Charter , signed on 14 August 1941 , by Franklin D . Roosevelt , President of the United States of America , and Winston Churchill , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , who pledged The Eight Principal points of the Charter . It also is derived from principles espoused by United States President Woodrow Wilson following World War I , after which some new nation states were formed , or previous states were revived after the dissolution of empires . The principle does not state how the decision is to be made , nor what the outcome should be , whether it be independence , federation , protection , some form of autonomy or full assimilation . Neither does it state what the delimitation between nations should be  nor what constitutes a nation . There are conflicting definitions and legal criteria for determining which groups may legitimately claim ___MASK68___ to self - determination . Sheikh Hasina Wazed (; born 28 September 1947 ) is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh , in office since January 2009 . She previously served as Prime Minister from 1996 to 2001 , and has led the ___MASK39___ since 1981 . Pakistan ( or ), officially the Islamic ___MASK94___ of Pakistan , is a federal parliamentary ___MASK94___ in South Asia on crossroads of Central Asia and Western Asia . It is the sixth - most populous country with a population exceeding 200 million people . It is the 36th largest country in the world in terms of area with an area covering . Pakistan has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east , Afghanistan to the west , Iran to the southwest and China in the far northeast respectively . It is separated from Tajikistan by Afghanistan ' s narrow Wakhan Corridor in the north , and also shares a maritime border with Oman . The genocide in Bangladesh began on 26 March 1971 with the launch of Operation Searchlight , as West Pakistan began a ___MASK1___ crackdown on the Eastern wing of the nation to suppress Bengali calls for self - determination rights . During the nine - month - long Bangladesh war for independence , members of the Pakistani ___MASK1___ and supporting Islamist militias from Jamaat - e - Islami killed up to 3 , 000 , 000 people and raped between 200 , 000 and 400 , 000 Bangladeshi women in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape . Some estimates mention the number of people killed between 300 , 000  500 , 000 , and describe the 3 million number as excessively inflated . The actions against women were supported by Imams and Muslim religious leaders , who declared that Bengali women were ' war - booty '. It is estimated that up to 30 million civilians became internally displaced . During the war there was also ethnic violence between Bengalis and Urdu - speaking Biharis . Several thousand non - Bengalis were also killed during the war .