Pakistan must apologize even though the real number of killings was not as much as claimed by the BAL thieves.Regardless of what year it is, the "genocide" of 1971 is a fiction. Operation searchlight was conducted in reaction to the barbarism of Bengali Muslim nationalist militias.
Muslim nationalism because non-Muslim Bengalis were excluded and even targeted. Read Sharmilla Bose's book.
As such Pakistan has no need to apologize for something it did not do. War crimes were committed on both sides. But since Bangladeshis keep bringing this up, they can only make an issue of this only after apologizing for their war crimes in 1971.
This includes targeting West Pakistani civilians and provoking troops with their violent unprovoked attacks.
Nevertheless, there were numerous killings after Mujib and his party was denied to form a national government. Many people who went through the turmoil count the killing somewhere between 35,000 to 100,000.
Someone may not accept a figure like this, but it is also genocide committed by the PA.
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