* 1971 – Over 200 of East Pakistan's ( now Bangladesh ) intellectuals are massacred by the Pakistani Army and their local allies.

East Pakistan's culture was influenced by the Communism in neighboring India.

Furthermore, Bengali politicians pushing for more autonomy complained that much of Pakistan's export earnings were generated in East Pakistan by the export of Bengali jute and tea.

As late as 1960, approximately 70 % of Pakistan's export earnings originated in the East Wing, although this percentage declined as international demand for jute dwindled.

By the mid-1960s, West Pakistan was benefiting from Ayub's " Decade of Progress ," with its successful " green revolution " in wheat, and from the expansion of markets for West Pakistani textiles, while the East Pakistan's standard of living remained at an abysmally low level.

The high flag rank officers, junior officers and many high command officers from the Pakistan's Armed Forces were highly cautious about their appointment in East-Pakistan, and the assignment of governing East Pakistan and appointment of an officer was considered highly difficult for the Pakistan High Military Command.

East Pakistan's Martial Law Administrator Admiral Ahsan, unified commander of Eastern Military High Command ( EMHC ), and Air Marshal Mitty Masud, Commander of Eastern Air Force Command ( EAFC ), were the only officers to object to the plans.

In 1954, when the United States dispatched the Military Assistance Advisory Group for West Pakistan, the East Pakistan Parliament signed a statement, which denounced Pakistan's government for signing a military pact with the United States.

Pakistan's defeat in the war ultimately led to the secession of East Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh.

West Pakistan's economy boomed and at its highest peak it was called the " West Germany of East.

The mostly Muslim western part of the province became Pakistan's Punjab Province ; the mostly Sikh and Hindu eastern part became India's East Punjab state.

A Pakistan International Airlines flight was sent to fetch Bhutto from New York, who at that time was presenting Pakistan's case before the United Nations Security Council on the East Pakistan Crises.

The party quickly gained massive popular support in East Bengal, later named East Pakistan, and eventually led the forces of Bengali nationalism in the struggle against West Pakistan's military and political establishment.

On 23 June 1949, Bengali nationalists from East Bengal broke away from the Muslim League, Pakistan's dominant political party, and established the All Pakistan Awami Muslim League.

However, due to its strength stemming from the discriminated Bengali population of Pakistan's eastern wing, the party eventually became associated and identified with East Bengal.

In the elections of 1970, the Awami League won 167 of 169 East Pakistan seats in the National Assembly but none of West Pakistan's 138 seats.

Mirza was an outspoken supporter of the " One Unit Programmme "— a programme of integrating the nations of West-Pakistan and East Pakistan's Bengali nation into one single nation.

He negotiated the 1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation and was a principal architect of India's military intervention in neighboring East Pakistan's civil war, which led to the creation of independent Bangladesh.

In the 1970s, he worked at Pakistan's Islamic Research Institute and traveled extensively in the Middle East and South Asia.

The East Bengal Regiment was formed in 1948 following Pakistan's creation from the Partition of British Raj in South Asia.

A Pakistan International Airlines flight was sent to fetch Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from New York, who at that time was presenting Pakistan's case before the United Nations Security Council on the East Pakistan Crises.

Martial Law Administrator of East Pakistan and unified Commander of Pakistan's Eastern Military High Command Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan objected to the pre-planned operation.

Several galleries highlight the building sectional conflict between West Pakistan and Bangladesh ( then East Pakistan ), the rise of Bengali nationalist leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the events of 1971, when the postponement by Pakistan's military ruler Gen. Yahya Khan of the convening of the National Assembly of Pakistan, in which Sheikh Mujib's Awami League had won a majority, led to the call for the independence of Bangladesh.

During this time, strong nationalistic sentiments in East Pakistan were perceived by the Pakistani Armed Forces and the central military government.

Admiral Shariff served as the deputy unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East Pakistan.

During the time of conflict, Soviet Union sympathized with the East Pakistan and entered in the conflict when the Soviet Armed Forces ordered the Soviet Navy dispatched two groups of cruisers and destroyers and a nuclear submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok.

1940-1941, most POWs, only 583 men survived, released in 1942 to join the Polish Armed Forces in the East.

In 2002, he traveled to the Middle East to tour the Armed Forces bases performing seventeen shows for the troops.

* 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.

In recent years the Royal Thai Armed Forces has begun increasing its role on the international stage by providing Peacekeeping forces to the United Nations ( UN ), in the International Force for East Timor ( INTERFET ), from 1999 to 2002.

His last Army post was as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East.

* December 16 – Victory Day of Bangladesh: The Pakistan Army in East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) surrenders to the Indian Armed Forces, ending the Bangladesh Liberation War.

* August 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida.

* Italian East African Armed Forces, 10 June 1940

* East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front

The fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U. S. Armed Forces in the Far East ( USAFFE ) to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon in the northern Philippines.

The Voice of Freedom, the radio station of the USAFFE ( United States Armed Forces in the Far East ) broadcasted from Corregidor, including the famous announcement of the fall of Bataan.

In early 1942 Marshall was given additional duty as Deputy Chief of Staff of USAFFE ( U. S. Armed Forces Far East ) when it was used to provide a US Army agency for Gen. MacArthur to exercise command over US Army troops in SWPA ( South West Pacific Army ).

* In June 2010 Metropolitan Police officers attempted to prevent a 15-year-old boy from photographing an Armed Forces Day parade in Romford, East London, citing " antisocial behaviour " and the Terrorism Act.

Never before had an East Timorese so publicly exposed and humiliated the Indonesian Armed Forces.

Of the 10, 000-12, 000 Poles sent to Kolyma in 1940 – 41, most POWs, only 583 men survived, released in 1942 to join the Polish Armed Forces in the East.

Following the Operation Barbarossa and the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement many of them were released and allowed to join the Polish Armed Forces in the East being formed in Southern Russia and Kazakhstan.

It did not see any significant combat, though its participation with the Soviet Armed Forces against the Czechoslovak interim government during the Prague Spring of 1968 was cancelled at the last minute and there were frequent reports of East German advisors with Communist African countries during the Cold War.

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The Polish First Army (, 1 AWP for short, also known as Berling's Army ) was a Polish Army unit formed in the Soviet Union in 1944, from the previously existing Polish I Corps as part of the People's Army of Poland ( LWP ), a formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the East.

* Polish Armed Forces in the East