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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Khadim Hussain Raja''' (b. [[Haranpur]], [[Jhelum District]], [[British India]] 1922/11/23; d. 1999/12/09, [[Islamabad]], [[Pakistan]]) was a [[Pakistani people|Pakistani]] army officer who attained the rank of [[Major General]]. He was the [[General Officer Commanding]] of 14 Division during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].<br />
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Maj Gen Raja was in charge of military operation of March 25, 1971. Other generals were present in Dhaka along with Yahya Khan, and secretly departed on the evening of March 25, 1971, that fateful day after fixing the deadline for the military action. Lt Gen Tikka Khan, Maj Gen Rao Farman Ali and Maj Gen Khadim Hussain Raja were associated with the planning of the military action. Eventually their action bloodied the capital city Dhaka with the blood of thousands of residents including students, military and police personnel, politician and the general mass. Later documents regarding their action on the early hours of 26 March 1971 known as Operation Searchlight was revealed to the world.<ref>{{cite book |title=Unlikely beginnings: a soldier's life |author-link=Aboobaker Osman Mitha |last=Mitha |first=Aboobaker Osman |page=333 |year=2003 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780195794137 }}</ref> He wrote a book, ''A Stranger in My Own Country: East Pakistan, 1969-71'' ([[Oxford University Press]], 2012), in which he revealed secrets about the nine-month liberation war of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news |title=‘Genetic engineering’ in East Pakistan |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/405014/genetic-engineering-in-east-pakistan/ |work=[[The Express Tribune]] |date=7 July 2012 |access-date=18 September 2012 }}</ref><br />
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The [[Mukti Bahini]]'s (under [[M. A. G. Osmani]]) initial success in capturing a portable radio-transmitter near [[Rangamati]] was short-lived due to Raja's accidental discovery of the transmitter—he had authorised a search for it, and directed it from his personal helicopter through radio-contact when it was fired-upon.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081029150607/http://www.ndu.edu/nesa/docs/Gill%20Atlas%20Final%20Version.pdf An Atlas of the 1971 India - Pakistan War: The Creation of Bangladesh by John H. Gill]<br />
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