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Thats what we call 'India-phobia'. tell me when the AL govt holding the trial of BD primates those run away from BD?
Out of mind? What Pak officer doing here?War criminal trials in Bangladesh
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Thats what we call 'India-phobia'. tell me when the AL govt holding the trial of BD primates those run away from BD?
Out of mind? What Pak officer doing here?psychedelic_renegade
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Coming from a typical hateful creature who isn't welcomed in his own country neither in the country where his loyalty lies! You'r not even compatible with zoos, animals might get hurt by all the hates oozing from you!
About the second part, safekeeping of POW was one of the reason why Pak unconditionally surrendered and acknowledged BD as a sovereign state. India acted like sane country should, handling over the POW to BD would have meant virtually killing them as emotion ran amok on BD's side that time.
Awami League minister, Mosharraf Hossain, father-in-law of Sheikh Hasin’s daughter Putul was rajakar.
Sheikh Hasina herself admitted during meeting with Faridpur district Awami leaders about Putul father-in-law was rajakar. Awami leaders from same district accused him of being rajakar. Hasina herself accused her cousin Sheikh Selim for his daughter to be married with son of another rajakar. This is not the end of it...
Sheikh Hasina herself admitted during meeting with Faridpur district Awami leaders about Putul father-in-law was rajakar. Awami leaders from same district accused him of being rajakar. Hasina herself accused her cousin Sheikh Selim for his daughter to be married with son of another rajakar. This is not the end of it...
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Funny video!!!!! The biggest rajakars the chiefs of al-badr, al-shams, shanti bahini are moving free and he is talking about hasina's relatives! lol
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War Crimes and Bangladesh
July 22, 2010
By Sebastian Strangio
Is a war crimes tribunal being used to settle political scores? If so, it may unleash social chaos.
Bangladeshs Liberation War Museum sits on a quiet street in central Dhaka, shaded by trees and fronted by an austere barbed wire fence. The small building commemorates the countrys 1971 liberation struggle, a fierce war of independence from Pakistan that cost an estimated 3 million lives. An eternal flame in the museums courtyard marks it out as a site of martyrdoma reminder of the bloody star under which the country was born. Almost fittingly, dozens of small Bangladeshi flags are intertwined on the rusting barbs of the museums front fence.
Last week, Bangladeshs government arrested two leading politicians from the countrys main Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, on charges of committing mass murder during the liberation struggle. The arrests, which followed the detention of the partys president, Motiur Rahman Nizami, and other top Jamaat officials in late June, mark the first stage of a tribunal established in March to address war crimes committed during the 1971 conflict.
But even though the tribunal has no scheduled start date, it has already whipped up controversy in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which was elected in a landslide in 2008 in part on promises of a trial, says it has evidence proving the involvement of senior Jamaat members in the 1971 atrocities. Critics, however, say the tribunal is being used to settle domestic political disputes and runs the risk of unleashing social chaos and compromising Dhakas relationship with Muslim allies in the Middle East.
The tribunal comes after nearly four decades of inaction in Bangladesh. The 1971 conflagration, which erupted when Pakistan attempted to prevent the secession of its eastern wing, included the systematic execution of leading Bengali intellectuals and the rape of by some estimates 200,000 women. Although the process of putting collaborators on trial began after the defeat of the Pakistani army on December 16, 1971, the tribunal process was derailed after the assassination of independence icon Sheik Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. Ahmed Ziauddin, an advisor to Bangladeshi rights group Odhikar, says that for the following three decades, a succession of military administrations has swept aside all attempts at justice, fearing it could implicate many within their own ranks.
The current process is, if you like, unfinished business that started in 1972, he says.
Mahbub Alam, general manager of the Liberation War Museum, says that even though 40 years have passed and many perpetrators are long dead, theres a widespread desire to see responsible politicians brought to justice. The people who did all these kinds of misdeeds are the beneficiaries of the creation of Bangladesh, says Alam, who lost his father in the Liberation War. Why are war criminals in power? They are the beneficiaries of the country, of three million martyrs.
Given the political difficulties involved in trying to extradite former military officers still living in Pakistan, the government is instead focusing on the razakarsinternal collaborators who led, assisted and committed crimes in conjunction with the Pakistani administration then in control of the country. For the moment, the attention is falling squarely on Jamaat and its allies.
Critics, however, say the tribunal could be compromised by its blatant use as a political bludgeon. Don Beachler, an associate professor of political science at New Yorks Ithaca College, says the government has set up the tribunal in order to tar Jamaat-e-Islami as allies of the Pakistani army and enemies of the Bangladeshi people. The fact that Jamaat ruled in coalition with the Bangladeshi Nationalist Partya key rival to the Awami Leaguefrom 2001 to 2006 provides an extra motive to pursue the Islamist movement, he says.
Many also agree that Nizami and other Jamaat leaders have reason to be concerned. Beachler says Nizami founded and led the Badr militia, which committed numerous acts of violence against civilians in support of the Pakistani armys campaign to repress Bengali nationalism. Nizami was active against independence and advocated violence against Hindus who were seen as the source of Bangladeshis alleged betrayal of Pakistan and Islam, he says. On the merits and the politics Nizami has much to fear.
Following their arrest, Jamaats leaders have pledged to fight the charges in court, accompanying it with peaceful street protests. Earlier this month, Khaleda Zia, the BNP president whose party ruled the country in coalition from Jamaat from 2001 to 2006, demanded the immediate release of its leaders, terming the arrests a heinous example of political repression.
Jamaat, which has close links to its more powerful namesake in Pakistan, has more than ten million followers, and any attempt to prosecute its leaders could provoke a social upheaval. After Nizamis arrest on June 29, for example, violent street riots erupted and injured more than 80 peoplea foretaste of what could greet the opening of the trials.
The Bangladesh government can expect major violence and/or law and order problems at home, with serious destabilising effects caused by militant members of Jamaat and its allied organisations, says Rafiqul Islam, a professor of international law at Macquarie University in Sydney, adding that militant help may also come from Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is a price that the government and people of Bangladesh have to pay for this trial.
There are also questions about the manner in which the trials are going ahead. Nizamialong with his deputy Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and top preacher Delwar Hossain Saydeewere arrested on charges of offending religious sentiment after they compared their persecution by the Awami League government to the sufferings of the Prophet Mohammed. Only once they were in custody did the government move ahead with questioning on war crimes-related charges.
In an editorial in the countrys Daily Star newspaper on July 14, human rights advocate Mozammel H. Khan wrote that their arrest on such trivial charges could undermine the credibility of the governments case against them. It might create a boomerang effect, he wrote, for the government in their pledge to bring the alleged war criminals, of which the three arrestees are believed to be leading members, to book.
Islam predicted that while the current government would reap political capital from the trials, they could damage relations with Middle Eastern countries with close links to Jamaat. On July 2, The Daily Star reported that the tribunal had proceeded on assurance from influential countries in the West that they would tackle any backlash from Middle East countries against the arrests of Jamaat leaders.
In spite of the political machinations surrounding the trials, Alam expresses hope that they will at least see some manner of justice done. In this country, if you go into each and every village you will find war victims, he says.
He says that for most Bangladeshis, the desire for vengeance is less important than the desire to see justice done: I dont expect that these gentlemen should be hanged, but the gentlemen should be tried, he says. Id like to see it in my lifetime.
War Crimes and Bangladesh | The Diplomat
July 22, 2010
By Sebastian Strangio
Is a war crimes tribunal being used to settle political scores? If so, it may unleash social chaos.
Bangladeshs Liberation War Museum sits on a quiet street in central Dhaka, shaded by trees and fronted by an austere barbed wire fence. The small building commemorates the countrys 1971 liberation struggle, a fierce war of independence from Pakistan that cost an estimated 3 million lives. An eternal flame in the museums courtyard marks it out as a site of martyrdoma reminder of the bloody star under which the country was born. Almost fittingly, dozens of small Bangladeshi flags are intertwined on the rusting barbs of the museums front fence.
Last week, Bangladeshs government arrested two leading politicians from the countrys main Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, on charges of committing mass murder during the liberation struggle. The arrests, which followed the detention of the partys president, Motiur Rahman Nizami, and other top Jamaat officials in late June, mark the first stage of a tribunal established in March to address war crimes committed during the 1971 conflict.
But even though the tribunal has no scheduled start date, it has already whipped up controversy in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which was elected in a landslide in 2008 in part on promises of a trial, says it has evidence proving the involvement of senior Jamaat members in the 1971 atrocities. Critics, however, say the tribunal is being used to settle domestic political disputes and runs the risk of unleashing social chaos and compromising Dhakas relationship with Muslim allies in the Middle East.
The tribunal comes after nearly four decades of inaction in Bangladesh. The 1971 conflagration, which erupted when Pakistan attempted to prevent the secession of its eastern wing, included the systematic execution of leading Bengali intellectuals and the rape of by some estimates 200,000 women. Although the process of putting collaborators on trial began after the defeat of the Pakistani army on December 16, 1971, the tribunal process was derailed after the assassination of independence icon Sheik Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. Ahmed Ziauddin, an advisor to Bangladeshi rights group Odhikar, says that for the following three decades, a succession of military administrations has swept aside all attempts at justice, fearing it could implicate many within their own ranks.
The current process is, if you like, unfinished business that started in 1972, he says.
Mahbub Alam, general manager of the Liberation War Museum, says that even though 40 years have passed and many perpetrators are long dead, theres a widespread desire to see responsible politicians brought to justice. The people who did all these kinds of misdeeds are the beneficiaries of the creation of Bangladesh, says Alam, who lost his father in the Liberation War. Why are war criminals in power? They are the beneficiaries of the country, of three million martyrs.
Given the political difficulties involved in trying to extradite former military officers still living in Pakistan, the government is instead focusing on the razakarsinternal collaborators who led, assisted and committed crimes in conjunction with the Pakistani administration then in control of the country. For the moment, the attention is falling squarely on Jamaat and its allies.
Critics, however, say the tribunal could be compromised by its blatant use as a political bludgeon. Don Beachler, an associate professor of political science at New Yorks Ithaca College, says the government has set up the tribunal in order to tar Jamaat-e-Islami as allies of the Pakistani army and enemies of the Bangladeshi people. The fact that Jamaat ruled in coalition with the Bangladeshi Nationalist Partya key rival to the Awami Leaguefrom 2001 to 2006 provides an extra motive to pursue the Islamist movement, he says.
Many also agree that Nizami and other Jamaat leaders have reason to be concerned. Beachler says Nizami founded and led the Badr militia, which committed numerous acts of violence against civilians in support of the Pakistani armys campaign to repress Bengali nationalism. Nizami was active against independence and advocated violence against Hindus who were seen as the source of Bangladeshis alleged betrayal of Pakistan and Islam, he says. On the merits and the politics Nizami has much to fear.
Following their arrest, Jamaats leaders have pledged to fight the charges in court, accompanying it with peaceful street protests. Earlier this month, Khaleda Zia, the BNP president whose party ruled the country in coalition from Jamaat from 2001 to 2006, demanded the immediate release of its leaders, terming the arrests a heinous example of political repression.
Jamaat, which has close links to its more powerful namesake in Pakistan, has more than ten million followers, and any attempt to prosecute its leaders could provoke a social upheaval. After Nizamis arrest on June 29, for example, violent street riots erupted and injured more than 80 peoplea foretaste of what could greet the opening of the trials.
The Bangladesh government can expect major violence and/or law and order problems at home, with serious destabilising effects caused by militant members of Jamaat and its allied organisations, says Rafiqul Islam, a professor of international law at Macquarie University in Sydney, adding that militant help may also come from Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is a price that the government and people of Bangladesh have to pay for this trial.
There are also questions about the manner in which the trials are going ahead. Nizamialong with his deputy Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and top preacher Delwar Hossain Saydeewere arrested on charges of offending religious sentiment after they compared their persecution by the Awami League government to the sufferings of the Prophet Mohammed. Only once they were in custody did the government move ahead with questioning on war crimes-related charges.
In an editorial in the countrys Daily Star newspaper on July 14, human rights advocate Mozammel H. Khan wrote that their arrest on such trivial charges could undermine the credibility of the governments case against them. It might create a boomerang effect, he wrote, for the government in their pledge to bring the alleged war criminals, of which the three arrestees are believed to be leading members, to book.
Islam predicted that while the current government would reap political capital from the trials, they could damage relations with Middle Eastern countries with close links to Jamaat. On July 2, The Daily Star reported that the tribunal had proceeded on assurance from influential countries in the West that they would tackle any backlash from Middle East countries against the arrests of Jamaat leaders.
In spite of the political machinations surrounding the trials, Alam expresses hope that they will at least see some manner of justice done. In this country, if you go into each and every village you will find war victims, he says.
He says that for most Bangladeshis, the desire for vengeance is less important than the desire to see justice done: I dont expect that these gentlemen should be hanged, but the gentlemen should be tried, he says. Id like to see it in my lifetime.
War Crimes and Bangladesh | The Diplomat
Awami regime has no proof against jamaat leader except political vendetta. Taking Jamaat leader in remand and building false cases are not trials. These awami activities are nazi tactics of crime itself.
These awami remand and prosecution are setting dangerous precedence and can be applied against Indian dalals and traitors in Bangladesh who are squandering Bangladesh sovereignty.
These awami remand and prosecution are setting dangerous precedence and can be applied against Indian dalals and traitors in Bangladesh who are squandering Bangladesh sovereignty.
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The Bangladesh government on Sunday filed a petition with its International Crimes Tribunal, seeking permission to show four detained top Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) leaders as arrested in connection with "war crimes" committed in 1971. The process has begun of trying those who are accused of targeting
thousands of unarmed civilians, mainly sympathisers of the movement against then East Pakistan authorities and religious minorities, in the run-up to the freedom movement.
It is a sensitive issue in Bangladesh for which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has updated the relevant law and has sought to garner international support.
The four leaders, detained on different charges including sedition, are Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and senior assistant secretary generals Muhammad Qamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah.
JeI is the country's largest Islamist party that had opposed the freedom movement.
"We have submitted a petition to the tribunal through its registrar, seeking necessary order so that the four Jamaat big shots can be kept confined and the investigation agency can smoothly conduct investigation into the allegations against them of committing genocide, killing, rape, torture, looting, arson during the Liberation War in 1971," Daily Star quoted prosecutor Golam Arif Tipu as saying.
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed told in a conference of Muslim marriage officers on Saturday: "The government will not try any innocent. If criminals try to save themselves through any political party's shelter, their trial does not mean a trial of that party."
The 'war crimes' took place 39 years ago. In the intervening period, many of the alleged perpetrators have died and many fled to Pakistan and other countries.
The staff of the tribunal appointed in March 2010 has studied volumes of evidence collected by freedom fighters' organisations and have visited sites of the alleged crimes.
Cases filed before courts across the country on charges of committing crimes during the Liberation War will be placed before the tribunal for trial, an official said.
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of Begum Zia and its ally, the JeI, have termed the trial as "political vendetta".
The government recently sent a list of 40 people to the immigration offices of the air and land ports with their photographs to prevent them from leaving the country.
Bangladesh begins war crimes trial process - Hindustan Times
thousands of unarmed civilians, mainly sympathisers of the movement against then East Pakistan authorities and religious minorities, in the run-up to the freedom movement.
It is a sensitive issue in Bangladesh for which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has updated the relevant law and has sought to garner international support.
The four leaders, detained on different charges including sedition, are Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and senior assistant secretary generals Muhammad Qamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah.
JeI is the country's largest Islamist party that had opposed the freedom movement.
"We have submitted a petition to the tribunal through its registrar, seeking necessary order so that the four Jamaat big shots can be kept confined and the investigation agency can smoothly conduct investigation into the allegations against them of committing genocide, killing, rape, torture, looting, arson during the Liberation War in 1971," Daily Star quoted prosecutor Golam Arif Tipu as saying.
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed told in a conference of Muslim marriage officers on Saturday: "The government will not try any innocent. If criminals try to save themselves through any political party's shelter, their trial does not mean a trial of that party."
The 'war crimes' took place 39 years ago. In the intervening period, many of the alleged perpetrators have died and many fled to Pakistan and other countries.
The staff of the tribunal appointed in March 2010 has studied volumes of evidence collected by freedom fighters' organisations and have visited sites of the alleged crimes.
Cases filed before courts across the country on charges of committing crimes during the Liberation War will be placed before the tribunal for trial, an official said.
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of Begum Zia and its ally, the JeI, have termed the trial as "political vendetta".
The government recently sent a list of 40 people to the immigration offices of the air and land ports with their photographs to prevent them from leaving the country.
Bangladesh begins war crimes trial process - Hindustan Times
If you didn't go by Bharati definition of war crime then it was that terrorist Mata-Hari, Indira Ghandi, who committed the worst one by invading E PAK whereas Malaun Mujib came second and Bhutto as third in the row. By letting them out by bullets, God worked in a mysterious way but why would you bother on that old, dry shyte-legacy whereas you Commy's azzes needed to get a place for settlement, especially after getting kicked-out from WB. Finally the plan on picking JI's leaders to make BD islamless wouldn't work because no one needed to ride on Bharati stalion to get proper info anymore. The following one in Bangla underlines the real motive of the trial of JI leaders...
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i strongly recommend opposition party to hold trial against the mukti awami terrorists.. next time they come to power and kick their bharati arse out..
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
MetropolitanPak intellectuals support war crimes trial
Bss, Dhaka
Pak intellectuals support war crimes trial
Two high-profile Pakistani intellectuals yesterday welcomed Bangladesh's move to expose Bengali-speaking perpetrators of 1971 crimes against humanity, as a special tribunal earlier this week in its maiden order issued arrest warrants against four main suspects.
“I appreciate and support any move against anyone responsible for the killing of innocent civilians in 1971.Genocide is a crime against humanity and every sensitive human being must support a move to put the criminals on trial in a court of law,” leading Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir told BSS.
In an interview over phone from Islamabad, Mir, who earned a professional repute for his in-depth journalistic study of militancy in Pakistan and voice for human rights in his country, said “I will (also) support any move against any Pakistani army officer who is responsible for violating law in 1971 or 1977 or 1999 or 2010 anywhere”.
“War criminals are our joint enemies. They killed Bangalees in Dhaka and other cities and gave a bad name to people of Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar who were not aware of what was going on in former East Pakistan,” he said.
Another leading Pakistani rights activist Begum Nasim Akhtar Malik, who had witnessed part of the March 25, 1971 genocide in Dhaka, told BSS over phone, “The 1971 war criminals must be exposed to trial”.
“Otherwise, the next generation will learn nothing about the history and from the history,” Malik said over phone from London, where she is currently staying with her sons.
She, however, suggested Bangladesh to carry out a massive campaign for building public opinion regarding the trial for the sake of justice so that the perpetrators of the crime do not get a chance to hatch “fresh plots” in the name of religion “as they did in 1971”.
Their comments came as the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday issued first arrest warrants against Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and senior assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla.
The four, however, are already in jail to face several other charges including sedition and murder cases while the tribunal order came on a special prosecution panel petition seeking orders so that the four arrested Jamaat bigwigs could be kept in confinement “in the interest of smooth investigation” of charges of 1971 crimes against them.
While throwing his weight also for the trial of Pakistani war criminals as asked about the trial of particularly 195 Pakistani officers who were listed as “war criminals” soon after Bangladesh's independence, Mir said “Pakistan army committed atrocities not only against Bangalees in (erstwhile) united Pakistan, they (also) killed a lot of innocent people in Baluchistan from 1958 to 1969 during the Martial Law regime of Gen Ayub Khan."
“Another dictator Gen Yahya Khan was responsible for the genocide of Bangalees in 1971,” he said.
Asked for his comments about Bangladesh's protracted demand for an official Pakistani apology for the atrocities committed by its soldiers against unarmed, innocent Bangalees in 1971, the leading Pakistani journalist said Islamabad should apologise to strengthen the ties.
“Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and former dictator Musharraf expressed soft regrets in the past but never issued an official apology. I have demanded and supported official apology many times because I love Pakistan and I love Bangladeshis,” he said.
“I think this apology will strengthen relations between the two countries,” Mir added.
“Today or tomorrow, Pakistan will have to seek the apology”, Nasim Akhtar said, adding that the progressive leaders of her country and the ordinary Pakistanis are now thinking that Islamabad must seek apology.
“A true Muslim is he, who can seek forgiveness, understanding his own wrongs,” she said.
MetropolitanPak intellectuals support war crimes trial
Bss, Dhaka
Pak intellectuals support war crimes trial
Two high-profile Pakistani intellectuals yesterday welcomed Bangladesh's move to expose Bengali-speaking perpetrators of 1971 crimes against humanity, as a special tribunal earlier this week in its maiden order issued arrest warrants against four main suspects.
“I appreciate and support any move against anyone responsible for the killing of innocent civilians in 1971.Genocide is a crime against humanity and every sensitive human being must support a move to put the criminals on trial in a court of law,” leading Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir told BSS.
In an interview over phone from Islamabad, Mir, who earned a professional repute for his in-depth journalistic study of militancy in Pakistan and voice for human rights in his country, said “I will (also) support any move against any Pakistani army officer who is responsible for violating law in 1971 or 1977 or 1999 or 2010 anywhere”.
“War criminals are our joint enemies. They killed Bangalees in Dhaka and other cities and gave a bad name to people of Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar who were not aware of what was going on in former East Pakistan,” he said.
Another leading Pakistani rights activist Begum Nasim Akhtar Malik, who had witnessed part of the March 25, 1971 genocide in Dhaka, told BSS over phone, “The 1971 war criminals must be exposed to trial”.
“Otherwise, the next generation will learn nothing about the history and from the history,” Malik said over phone from London, where she is currently staying with her sons.
She, however, suggested Bangladesh to carry out a massive campaign for building public opinion regarding the trial for the sake of justice so that the perpetrators of the crime do not get a chance to hatch “fresh plots” in the name of religion “as they did in 1971”.
Their comments came as the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday issued first arrest warrants against Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and senior assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla.
The four, however, are already in jail to face several other charges including sedition and murder cases while the tribunal order came on a special prosecution panel petition seeking orders so that the four arrested Jamaat bigwigs could be kept in confinement “in the interest of smooth investigation” of charges of 1971 crimes against them.
While throwing his weight also for the trial of Pakistani war criminals as asked about the trial of particularly 195 Pakistani officers who were listed as “war criminals” soon after Bangladesh's independence, Mir said “Pakistan army committed atrocities not only against Bangalees in (erstwhile) united Pakistan, they (also) killed a lot of innocent people in Baluchistan from 1958 to 1969 during the Martial Law regime of Gen Ayub Khan."
“Another dictator Gen Yahya Khan was responsible for the genocide of Bangalees in 1971,” he said.
Asked for his comments about Bangladesh's protracted demand for an official Pakistani apology for the atrocities committed by its soldiers against unarmed, innocent Bangalees in 1971, the leading Pakistani journalist said Islamabad should apologise to strengthen the ties.
“Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and former dictator Musharraf expressed soft regrets in the past but never issued an official apology. I have demanded and supported official apology many times because I love Pakistan and I love Bangladeshis,” he said.
“I think this apology will strengthen relations between the two countries,” Mir added.
“Today or tomorrow, Pakistan will have to seek the apology”, Nasim Akhtar said, adding that the progressive leaders of her country and the ordinary Pakistanis are now thinking that Islamabad must seek apology.
“A true Muslim is he, who can seek forgiveness, understanding his own wrongs,” she said.
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Hey bro watch your language. The freedom fighters are national heroes of BD. We all want to see good BD-Pak ties, but you have to learn to respect us first!
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Why can't we put this ancient history behind us. Those responsible for indiscretions should be tried in a Pakistani military court though.
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