A thread: Pakistani newspaper Dawn's front pages from 4th december 1971 to 20 December to see how they kept their own people in the dark. This was on 4th december, after the commencement of war on 3rd december.
5th dec
6th dec
7th dec
8th dec
9th dec
10th dec
11 dec
12 dec
13 dec (till 13th dec, they showed like Pakistan was winning)
14 dec (kind of neutral headlines)
15 dec (first sign of distress only a day before surrender)
16th dec (first time rather passive headlines, still no direct headlines)
17th dec (the day after East Pakistan surrendered to Indian Forces)
18 dec
19 dec
20 dec
This is the foremost english newspaper of Pakistan, we can only imagine how much propaganda were fed from local urdu and punjabi newspapers which were the most read.
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