Bangladesh, March 22 -- BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed today said that the declaration of independence by Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman had provided direction to a nation in confusion during the Liberation War. BSS report.

"Independence Day has given us a distinct identity on the world map. Through the declaration of independence, achieved at the cost of immense sacrifice and bloodshed, Major Ziaur Rahman showed a new path to a disoriented nation," he said.

Rizvi was addressing a press conference at the party's central office at Nayapaltan in the capital this afternoon, arranged to announce detailed programmes marking Independence Day on March 26.

He said Bangladesh has achieved many milestones through inde...