Bangabandhu Avenue ( bn, বঙ্গবন্ধু এভিনিউ) is an urban road situated in

Gulistan, Dhaka Gulistan is a very busy street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It means 'Flower Garden' in Persian, which lead to the speculation that in medieval times there might be prominent flower gardens. Several important streets are connected to Gulistan which makes ...

. Its former name is Jinnah Avenue. central office of Bangladesh Awami League is situated in Bangabandhu Avenue. The Dhaka grenade attack of 2004 happened in Bangabandhu Avenue.

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Some year after

Partition of India The Partition of British India in 1947 was the Partition (politics), change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: ...

, a two-way road was built from this avenue to the airport. In the 1960s, Bangabandhu Avenue had many popular restaurants and eateries such as Chu Chin Chow, Kasbah, La Sani, Rex, Sweet Heaven, Salimabad Hotel etc. Bangabandhu Avenue witnessed various historical events in the politics of

East Pakistan East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Scheme, One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India ...

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