- Every year India celebrates Vijay Diwas on December 16 to commemorate India’s victory over Pakistan in 1971 during the war for the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan.
- On this day in 1971, the chief of the Pakistani forces, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, along with 93 thousand troops, had surrendered unconditionally to the allied forces consisting of Indian Army and Mukti Bahini, led by Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora in Dhaka after their defeat in the Liberation War.
- The end of the war also resulted in subsequent secession of East Pakistan into Bangladesh.
