Ziaur Rahman — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Ziaur Rahman; used for entity facts only. It recounts his birth at Bagbari, Bogra, on 19 January 1936, his Pakistan Army service, his broadcast of the declaration of independence from Chittagong in March 1971 and his sector command in the Liberation War, his army chiefship and then his presidency from 1977 until his assassination at Chittagong on 30 May 1981, his founding of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and his burial at the Mausoleum of Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka. Its infobox carries no religion field.