The Poorvi Star is a
service medal given to Indian military personnel who served in
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 ...
(now Bangladesh) during the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
References
Military awards and decorations of India
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