throughout east Pakistan. The peace committee in Munshiganj gave a grand reception to the West Pakistani militaries on 11 May 1971. According to the historian Azadur Rahman Chandan in his 2011 book about the war, the Peace Committee was the first organisation to be set up by local residents who collaborated with Pakistan. Its members were drawn from the political parties of the Muslim League and Jamaat-e-Islami, which thought an independent Bangladesh was against Islam; as well as the Urdu-speaking Biharis. Abolition On 16 December 1971, after the end of the war, the committee was abolished. Former members Khwaja Khairuddin - Leader of the East Pakistan Council Muslim League See also Al Badr Al Sham References Bangladesh Liberation War History of East Pakistan 1971 establishments in Bangladesh