These objectives were successfully fulfilled by Crack Platoon. That commando team also aimed at inspiring the people of Dhaka who were frequently being victims of killing and torture. Another major objective was proving to the international community that the situation in East Pakistan was not normal. The basic objectives of Crack Platoon were to demonstrate the strength of Mukti Bahini, terrorising Pakistan Army and their collaborators. Later, number of commandos was increased, the platoon was split and deployed in different areas surrounding Dhaka city. From Melaghar, commandos of Crack Platoon headed for Dhaka on 4 June 1971 and launched guerrilla operation on 5 June. Those commandos were receiving training in Melaghar Camp at that time. Initially, number of commandos in the platoon was 17. Khaled along with A.T.M Haider, another sector commander formed the Crack Platoon.

The plan was to make World Bank Mission understand the true situation of East Pakistan and stop sanctioning the aid. at that time, was expecting economic aid from World Bank, which was assumed to be spent to buy arms. The major objective of this team was to prove that the situation was not normal actually. The task assigned to the team was to carry out commando operations and to terrorise Dhaka. Khaled Mosharraf, a sector commander of Mukti Bahini, planned to deploy a special commando team. The media cell of Pakistan government was circulating a news that situation in East Pakistan was stable and normal. In June 1971, World Bank sent a mission to observe the situation in East Pakistan.

During the Napoleonic wars, rifle and sapper units were formed that held specialised roles in reconnaissance and skirmishing and were not committed to the formal battle lines. In Japan, ninjas were used for reconnaissance, espionage and as assassins, bodyguards or fortress guards, or otherwise fought alongside conventional soldiers. Muslim forces also had naval special operations units, including one that used camouflaged ships to gather intelligence and launch raids and another of soldiers who could pass for Crusaders who would use ruses to board enemy ships and then capture and destroy them.

In the late Roman or early Byzantine period, Roman fleets used small, fast, camouflaged ships crewed by selected men for scouting and commando missions. Hamilcar Barca in Sicily (249 BC) had specialized troops trained to launch several offensives per day. Chinese strategist Jiang Ziya, in his Six Secret Teachings, described recruiting talented and motivated men into specialized elite units with functions such as commanding heights and making rapid long-distance advances.

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