Bangladesh' Independence Day

Bangladesh' Independence Day

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP): Thousands cheered a military parade and placed flowers at a war memorial Saturday at an independence anniversary laced with bitterness against Pakistan, hours after a Pakistani diplomat was expelled from the country.

Men, women and children placed wreaths of roses and marigolds at the memorial for unknown martyrs near the Bangladeshi capital on the 29th anniversary of the nation's independence from Pakistan.

On Friday night, Pakistan's Deputy High Commissioner Irfanur Rahman Raja left the Bangladeshi capital after being expelled over a controversy related to Bangladesh's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.