Pakistan to summon Bangladesh’s envoy

[Homo Sapiens]

Geo-politically speaking BD is insignificant to Pakistan

It goes on both ways. Pakistan also have no significance for Bangladesh in anyways.

 

[Riyad]

Activists of Islami Jamiat Talaba, Pakistan offer absentia funeral prayers for executed Bangladeshi Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahida during a protest in Karachi on November 23, 2015.(AFP photo)

Sympathy for war criminals: Bangladesh daily raps Pakistan

DHAKA: Bangladesh feels "insulted that the official line of Pakistan should be one of commiseration with those convicted of crimes that should be condemned by any civilised nation", said a leading daily which expressed its outrage at Pakistan's concern for war criminals.

An editorial "Pakistan's statement on hanging of war criminals uncalled for and unacceptable" in the Daily Star on Tuesday said: "We are outraged by Pakistan foreign ministry's statement expressing 'deep concern and anguish' over the execution of two war criminals who collaborated with the Pakistani forces to perpetrate the most heinous crimes against the Bengalis in 1971."

"The active participation of these war criminals in these crimes against humanity has been proven in the International Crimes Tribunal following standard proceedings with enough scope for the accused to prove the allegations wrong. In such circumstances we find Pakistan's official stand not only a dishonour to the martyrs of the Liberation War but also unacceptable interference in a country's internal affairs," said the daily.

Two Bangladesh opposition leaders were executed in the early hours of Sunday for war crimes committed during the 1971 Independence struggle against Pakistan. Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, 67, and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, 68, were hanged in Dhaka's central jail.

The editorial noted this is "not the first time that Pakistan has officially condemned the carrying out of sentences handed down to other war criminals".

"As a nation we feel insulted that the official line of Pakistan should be one of commiseration with those convicted of crimes that should be condemned by any civilised nation. Instead of issuing a formal apology to the people of Bangladesh for the war crimes committed by their own army, Pakistan's government has chosen to side with those collaborators who are part of this shameful history," it added.

The daily went on to say that it seems "the bigotry and racism that prompted the Pakistani occupying forces to unleash a wave of terror on ordinary people have been carried over by some Pakistani officials since 1971".

Sympathy for war criminals: Bangladesh daily raps Pakistan - Times of India

 

[Saiful Islam]

It goes on both ways. Pakistan also have no significance for Bangladesh in anyways.

But BD politicians seem to trash talk them a lot, while I rarely/never see a Pak politician having a discussion about BD.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

But BD politicians seem to trash talk them a lot, while I rarely/never see a Pak politician having a discussion about BD.

Due to historical violent independence struggle against Pakistan, The name "Pakistan" will be quoted in BD in negative ways as long as BD remain as a country. Discussing our liberation history and its context and outcome without mentioning Pakistan in negative ways is like discussing ww2 and its monstrous atrocity without mentioning the name of Nazi Germany.Both of which is not possible.Fortunately, Germany is repentant for their past crime and current European,Russian doesn't hold any bad feeling towards them unlike Pakistan.But it doesn't mean Pakistan is important in any ways in BD.

 

[Saiful Islam]

Due to historical violent independence struggle against Pakistan, The name "Pakistan" will be quoted in BD in negative ways as long as BD remain as a country. Discussing our liberation history and its context and outcome without mentioning Pakistan in negative ways is like discussing ww2 and its monstrous atrocity without mentioning the name of Nazi Germany.Both of which is not possible.Fortunately, Germany is repentant for their past crime and current European,Russian doesn't hold any bad feeling towards them unlike Pakistan.But it doesn't mean Pakistan is important in any ways in BD.

So in simple terms, Pak will always be mentioned in any trivial situation. Whether it's about cricket game or simply having a dump.

 

[mpk1988]

What business is it of Pak here? Isn't this an internal matter of Bangladesh?

 

[bdslph]

Bangladesh is still in 1970s mentality we should learn prom Philippines

 

[Post Colonnial]

Has Pakistan officially apologized to Bangladesh for the genocide and other atrocities committed by their military, deliberately, in 1971? This missive from Pakistan is simply adding further insult to that injury. I hope the BD envoy conveyed that.

 

[Sharpshooter12]

Seriously Bangladesh or more precisely Awami Leauge needs to grow up.

There was a civil war in the country, people do take sides in such a war and they do some times take side of the regime. There is a thing called "Truth and Reconciliation". In the War of American Independence there were many colonials who sided with the British, did the US govt. after gaining independence prosecuted all of them.

These things will only create more fragmentation in your society.

 

[wiseone2]

Has Pakistan officially apologized to Bangladesh for the genocide and other atrocities committed by their military, deliberately, in 1971? This missive from Pakistan is simply adding further insult to that injury. I hope the BD envoy conveyed that.

pakistan's apology will be reflected in their history books

 

[kobiraaz]

Never apologize. Because after you apologize they will ask for compensation. They won't stop as its their business it's their roti ruji to exploit 1971 sentiment. People who were inactive during the war are most vocal now a days. People like Jafar Iqbal and Muntasir Mamun.

 

[Nilgiri]

Bangladesh is still in 1970s mentality we should learn prom Philippines

Philippines "learnt" to develop meaningful relations with Japan and move on....after Japan accepted full guilt, allowed prosecution of many of its war criminals and paid hundreds of millions to PH in reparations (billions in todays dollars).

Nothing to learn from PH for Bangladesh because Pakistan has done none of what Japan did post war for PH and other countries affected by Japan in WW2.

 

[kobiraaz]

Philippines "learnt" to develop meaningful relations with Japan and move on....after Japan accepted full guilt, allowed prosecution of many of its war criminals and paid hundreds of millions to PH in reparations (billions in todays dollars).

Nothing to learn from PH for Bangladesh because Pakistan has done none of what Japan did post war for PH and other countries affected by Japan in WW2.

Pakistan is not in a position to do so. They are poor. I myself have no grudge against Pakistan because they are a defeated nation. You don't kill the dead again and again.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Pakistan is not in a position to do so. They are poor. I myself have no grudge against Pakistan because they are a defeated nation. You don't kill the dead again and again.

Being poor doesn't allow them to hand wash of their criminal deed.In fair criminal justice, same penulty given rich or poor alike.Al least they could apologize for their past crime and take initiative to bring justice to those 195 Pakistani war criminal.But instead they are totally remorseless and trying to protect their criminal slave in BD. That shows the quality of a nation they are.As their mentality is not like those of Germany or Japan, so don't expect us to like them same way that Germany or Japan liked by the world.

 

[Nilgiri]

India bears culpability for allowing those that were guilty to go scot-free without even a trial.

In that regard B'desh is well within its rights to blame India for that (its nowhere on the level of the actual war crimes themselves....but it was inexcusable nevertheless).

I feel utterly angry each time I am reminded that we had them and we let them go in the name of improving relations with Pakistan or whatever (international pressure blah blah).

I (and hopefully many others from India) accept it was a shameful, despicable act and it also should not be forgotten for aiding miscarriage of justice and severely undermining our relations with Bangladesh from the start.

In a way there was never even an attempt of bringing some form of closure, justice and recompensation for the many many thousands of victims....and I don't think it will be any time soon that we can forgive or forget this quite horrific struggle and war.