Nevertheless as Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said " If a war starts anything can happen.

After the war ended, the government of India installed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of the Awami League in the office of the Prime Minister.

The Chechens moved to retake the lowlands: in 1785, a holy war was declared on the Russians by Sheikh Mansur, who was captured in 1791 and died a few years later.

That August, the British reported that supplies were being sent to Jijiga to support the activities of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan and Sheikh Hassan Barsane, a devout Muslim pair who were at war with the British and Italians in Somalia.

They held a special tribunal in order to punish all those who participated in the civil war, among those hanged was Sheikh Fazlollah Nuri.

Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, leader of the Islamic Courts, called for a jihad, or holy war, against Ethiopia and encouraged foreign Muslim fighters to come to Somalia.

He is also known to be responsible for the heinous killing of the four national leaders, who led the country during the liberation war in absence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed and Captain Muhammad Mansur Ali, and former interior minister A H M Qamaruzzaman on 3 November 1975 inside the Dhaka Central Jail, commemorated as Jail Killing Day.

However, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was influenced to question the integrity of Tajuddin for the party and for himself by the parties within the Awami League who were proved redundant during the Liberation war.

* 1603 – 1627: civil war after the death of Ahmad al-Mansur, opposing three pretenders: Abou Fares Abdallah, Abou Fares Abdallah and Mohammed esh Sheikh el Mamun ; beginning of the decline of the Saadi Empire ;

That same day the same group of disgruntled army personnel who assassinated Sheikh Mujib and his family took action that resulted in the assassination and jailing of several senior Army officers and noted civilians who were involved in the nations war of independence.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

Matiur Rahman was awarded Bangladesh's highest military award, Bir Sreshtho, for his attempt to defect to join the civil war in east.

Abdur Rahman Khan was considered a strong ruler who re-established the writ of the Afghan government after the disarray that followed the second Anglo-Afghan war.

In this war, Abdur Rahman became distinguished for ability and daring energy.

* August 20 – Matiur Rahman, Bangladeshi war hero ( b. 1945 )

Rahman built a strong rapport with bin Laden during the Afghan war against the Soviets, and following Azzam ’ s murder in 1989 Rahman assumed control of the international jihadists arm of MAK / Al Qaeda.

She replaced Gul with another Lieutenant General Shamsur Rahman Kallu who proved to be more a capable officer in the Afghan war than Gul.

On July 18, 2011, former Libyan foreign minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham, who had defected from the Libyan government in March at the beginning of what would become the 2011 Libyan civil war, told al-Hayat that the Libyan government was responsible for the bombing of UTA Flight 772.

Rahman came back with three wins, including one in May 2000 over Corrie Sanders in a war in which he was dropped twice and came back to win in 7, and after that he was moved back up in the rankings.

The death in 1901 of Emir Abdur Rahman Khan led indirectly to the war that began 18 years later.

Abdul Rahman Al-Eryani opposed the Egyptian and Saudi interference in Yemen affairs and led with two of his colleagues, Ahmed Noaman and Mohamad Al-Zubairi, a strong movement against the foreign involvement of Nasser's Egypt in the Yemeni civil war between republicans and royalists.

The death of Arif prompted a power struggle in Baghdad which gave Barzani time to reorganize, but operations resumed once more by the summer once Arif's brother, Abdul Rahman Arif became president and vowed to continue the war.

His father, Faizur Rahman Ahmed, a police officer and writer, was killed by Pakistani military during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971, and his mother is Ayesha Foyez.

Shah Azizur Rahman was permitted to return Bangladesh after liberation war.

These regiments were formed during the war at Teldhala of Tura, Meghalaya, in 1971 by Major Ziaur Rahman.

* Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer ( chairman ) of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, former Member of Jatiyo Sangshad ( 2001 – 2006 ), former Minister of Agriculture ( 2001 – 2003 ), now under trial for war crimes during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

Hailed from East-Pakistan, Hamoodur Rahman retained his Pakistani citizenship even after the war and independence of Bangladesh.

Late Mohammad Sohrab Hossain, Ex Member of National Assembly of Pakistan, Bangobondhu cabinet Minister ( 1972-5 ) and the Leader of Liberation War 1971 of Jessore District and the President of first public meeting on the liberated soil of Bangladesh at Jessore, Late Poet Kazi Kader Newaz, Cricket Allrounder Shakib Al Hasan, Late Dariapur Pir Saheb, Late Poet Syed Ali Ahsan, Late Poet Farrukh Ahmad, Late Poet Lutfur Rahman, Greatest Muktibahini Leader Akbar Hossain Miah of " Akbar Bahini ", Shahid Sirajuddin Hossain ( an intellectual journalist killed by Rajakars during the war of Liberation ), Birprotik Golam Eyakub Molla, Late M. Khalilur Rahman ( Ex Chief Engineer, Ministry of Works ), Abu Saleh ( ekushey padak and bangla Academy Padak winner journalist and rhymer ), Dr. Shirajul Akbar M. P.

In prominent daily appeals, Rahman now declared war on acid throwers and called upon his readers to contribute to the Prothom Alo Aid Fund for acid victims.

* 1975 – Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.

* 1971 – The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.

The tense diplomatic relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ( Mujib ), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

During the time of conflict, the Faisal of Saudi Arabia and Government of Saudi Arabia gave strong criticism to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his government for destabilizing the East Pakistan as well as the Pakistan.

Due to close interaction with Soviet Union and India, China also remained hostile towards East-Pakistan, and criticized East-Pakistan's Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for causing the disturbance in Pakistan and refused to diplomatically recognized the succession of East Pakistan.

* 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.

* 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.

* 1920 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.

Prompting, Khan managed and called for a Round Table Conference in Rawalpindi, but socialists led by Bhutto refused to accept Ayub's continuation in office and the East-Pakistani politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Six point movement for regional autonomy.

Khan arrested Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of Sedition and appointed Brigadier Rahimuddin Khan ( later General ) to preside over a special tribunal dealing with Mujib's case.

Shortly after Yahya Khan stepped down, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reversed Rahimuddin Khan's verdict, released Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and saw him off to London.

* January 10 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns Bangladesh from Pakistan

* March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founder of Bangladesh, first President & Prime minister of Bangladesh.

** Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan ( present day-Bangladesh ), delivers his famous speech in the Racecourse Field in Dhaka, calling on the masses to be prepared to fight for national independence.

** East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is declared by local Awami League leader Hannan Sarker on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Kalurghat Radio Station in Chittagong.

* March 27 – East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is repeatedly declared by Army Major ( later President of Bangladesh ) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong.

** The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Mujibnagor.

** Bangladesh freedom fighter Shiraj Shikder was killed by country's president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

** Founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup led by Major Syed Faruque Rahman.

Due to political exclusion, ethnic and linguistic discrimination, as well as economic neglect by the politically dominant West Pakistan, popular agitation led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman grew against West Pakistan, resulting in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which the Bengali people won with the support of India.

Inspired by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's vision for a Switzerland of the East, the Bangladesh government has begun to translate the ideal into a foreign policy that pursues regional economic integration in South Asia and aims to establish Bangladesh as a regional hub of transit trade in Asia.

Following the recognition of Bangladesh by Pakistan in 1974, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as an unanticiptable surprise, sent Shah Azizur Rahman, to lead a Bangladeshi delegation to the international meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC, now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ) held in Lahore.

India also withdrew its military from the land of Bangladesh when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman requested Indira Gandhi to do so during latter's visit to Dhaka in 1972.

* Ziaur Rahman's and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's families ( Bangladesh )