Will Pakistan and Bangladesh bury the hatchet?

[Imran Khan]

Mock all you want but fishes are really an important resource of Bangladesh. Every year we harvest $6 billion worth of Hilsa fish alone, all other varieties give us a bounty worth at least $20 billion. Unlike your Gold, Diamond, Oil, Gas, Coal, our fish will not deplete in thousands of years. It will continue to add to our GDP and feed us a very nutritious diet long after your Gold, Diamond, Oil, Gas, Coal become exhausted.

bhai fish na ho gai james bound ho gya

 

[bluesky]

I'm not a PTI fanboy who thinks election and IK will fix everything. IKs next government will not be very different from previous one. The snakes in GHQ will continue to rule and they will wipe out Pakistan from the map.

Why GHQ should be like snakes. They reflect people’ minds and fight hard to achieve what people want them to.

You must not disqualify the military until they force India to vacate Kashmir. Kashmiri women are beautiful and they must be distributed among Punjabis and Pathan. They should be regarded as Ma’ale Ganimat.

I expect Pakistan to use its atomic bomb to force India.

 

[bluesky]

We will bury the hatchet without any Pajeet interference or Pajeet revisionist history being referenced.

While we respect and care for our Bengali Muslim brothers, politically it's not a necessity although I would like to see collaboration in certain areas. Maybe we could pool together brains and resources in defence R&D as well as the education sector.

The Pajeet India interfered when the PA establishment brutalized the East.

Without the West bullying the East and getting separated, there would have more troops from Bengal in the PA at the expense of troops from Punjab.

Do not blame Pajeet. Now, we are equal.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

But the common factors between India and Bangladesh are the culture, food, traditions and language, the script and the west Bengal in India, others.

Bangladeshi people have nothing in common with 93% Indians who are not Bengali. Not language, culture, tradition, foods, dress habits, art, literature, nothing. Rest of the 7% Indians who are Indian Bengali are also very different than us. They are predominantly Hindu while we are Muslims. Religion is obviously a big factor which influences a lot of cultural practices, ideology and identity. In the last 75 years, Bangladesh and West Bengal diverged a lot. They try to present themselves more Indian than Hindiwala from north India, while Bangladeshis cherish independence and sovereignty above anything else. Where is the common ground here? A Hindustani, Gujarati, Marathi or Tamil from India is no less alien for us than a Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun and Baloch from Pakistan. So, do not invent imaginary similarities between Bangladesh and India.

 

[iLION12345_1]

The quality of comments by Pakistanis in this thread show why they’ll never improve and are getting left behind by even Bangladesh. Small minded, brainwashed by the biased history they were taught (though tbf BDs school teach history that’s even more twisted than what we study in Pakistan) and simply unwilling to admit fault. Apparently Pakistan is only worst off than other countries because “it had to fight a war” or “Because XYZ politician” and not because it’s people are too unwilling to recognize that they are the reason for their nations shitty existence.

I lived in BD for a while nearly a decade ago, and I was so happy to be back home because I thought the place was backwards, and now, a decade later, they are leaving us behind, so clearly there is something we can learn from them. All this Bullshit about them being traitors or PA commuting genocide or differences is just that, bullshit, I know that might touch a nerve, but look at all the nations that developed out of WW2, each of them did to the other 10x worst than what BD and PK did to each other, and yet all of them only developed because they buried the hatchet and worked together, these two nations can do the same.

BDs problems currently stem from its population, lack of resources and infrastructure, but they’ve chosen to fix their economy before going after these things, I pray they find success, something they can only do after they get rid of corrupt politicians.

 

[Samurai_assassin]

Will not happen because there are many in BD who still hold hatred for Pak. BD also does not want to harm its ties with India as business seems to be booming between the two nations.
Pakistan does not have much to offer BD.

 

[Dr.Nick Riviera]

Bangladesh buried the hatched in 1975. Haseena opened it again in 1996 and ripped the hatchet off its hinges in 2009.

 

[Tom-tom]

Bangladesh buried the hatched in 1975. Haseena opened it again in 1996 and ripped the hatchet off its hinges in 2009.

Why? What we do in our country has nothing to with you. We prosecuted and hanged ppl in our country that have continually acted against the good of our country. Yes there's corruption, but then there is acting against the actual of good of country of many decades.

Does bdesh try to insert itself into internal domestic affair in pak affairs that's domestic? To such an extent where we tried to band together muslim countries to mess you up?

This act itself, show you paks or your elites have been inbred so much that you are deceitful p.o.s. all that inbreeding has reduced the size of your brains to chimps, that always why some these elites beat the chest like primates.

 

[AlKardai]

You must not disqualify the military until they force India to vacate Kashmir. Kashmiri women are beautiful and they must be distributed among Punjabis and Pathan. They should be regarded as Ma’ale Ganimat.

shut the **** up you ignorant fool.

Keep your stupid opinions away from the people of my homeland

You're Just like a urge-infested, hormone fuelled pajeet

 

[Destranator]

The important question is who will finance the hatchet? IMF/WB/China/Russia?

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Will Pakistan and Bangladesh bury the hatchet?​

by Editor

February 20, 2023
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By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today
Colombo, February 20:

On the sidelines of Sri Lanka’s 74 th. Independence Day celebrations in Colombo earlier this month, Pakistan’s State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, sought a bilateral meeting with the Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen. As per established practice, the request was granted.

While the media readout on the discussions merely said that the two leaders discussed ways to improve ties, the Indian news agency ANI reported that Momen reiterated his government’s consistent position that normalization could not take place until Pakistan officially and unconditionally apologized for the atrocities committed by its army in the months preceding Bangladesh’s birth in December 1971. Though the number of civilians killed in the seven-month liberation war is disputed, it was humongous by all accounts.

Pakistan’s response to the demand for a formal apology, since it was first made during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s first term in 1996, has been that its leaders had more than once “regretted” the happenings. But in Bangladesh’s view, these did not amount to an official apology or acceptance of guilt.

Against this, Pakistan’s view has been that the two countries should not be prisoners of the past. But this does not cut ice with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the pro-liberation support base of her party, the Awami League (AL). The AL had spearheaded the liberation movement against Pakistan under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina’s father.

However, it is not as if attempts have never been made for a rapprochement. But these efforts eventually failed. That was so even when the rulers in Dhaka were well- disposed towards Pakistan, like Gen. Ziaur Rahman, Gen.H. M. Ershad and Khaleda Zia. In fact, Sheikh Mujib himself had reached out to Pakistan in 1973-74, a couple of years before he was assassinated by pro-Pakistan junior army officers.

Musharraf with Khaleda Zia

The initial euphoria over the liberation of Bangladesh with the help of the Indian army wore out by 1973. Bangladesh was facing severe economic problems and Mujib’s dictatorial rule. Mujib was getting unpopular.

Thinking that his close links with liberator India had become a liability, he distanced himself from it, shed his government’s secular claims, and asserted Bangladesh’s Islamic identity. He joined the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in February 1974 and in June 1974 got Pakistan Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto to pay a state visit.

At the tripartite talks held between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in April 1974 to end the 1971 conflict, Mujib did not raise the issue of an official apology from Pakistan, according to Moonis Ahmar, author of Pakistan-Bangladesh relations – Prospects and Way Forward. Ahmar notes that Mujib even granted amnesty to those who collaborated with the Pakistan Army.

After Mujib was assassinated by a group of pro-Pakistan army officers in August 1975, the successor regimes of Gen. Ziaur Rahman, Gen.H.M.Ershad and Khaleda Zia carried forward the policy of Islamization and mending ties with Pakistan. Ziaur Rahman journeyed to Pakistan and improved trade relations. In 1977, Pakistan was Bangladesh’s second-largest trading partner after the US.

Presidents Zia and Ershad and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia were using Pakistan as a bulwark against India. The trio had serious issues with India over river waters sharing, the definition of the border and the shelter given to anti-Indian terror groups in Bangladesh.

However, it did not take long for these regimes to become unpopular on grounds of non-performance and misrule. But their strategy of securing legitimacy by playing the Islamic and anti-Indian/pro-Pakistan cards failed. These neither delivered the goods domestically nor to a detente with Pakistan.

Even the pro-Pakistan Bangladesh regimes wanted the return of Bangladesh’s assets in the possession of Pakistan (estimated at US$ 4.5 billion) and the repatriation of the 230,000 Biharis who had sided with the Pakistani army during the liberation war. But Pakistan demanded that the pre-war liabilities be shared. These issues were raised by Khaleda when the Pakistani military ruler Gen.Pervez Musharraf visited Dhaka in 2002.

Though not in power, the pro-liberation and anti-Pakistan constituency in Bangladesh was substantial. It was revitalized when Mujib’s doughty daughter, Sheikh Hasina, returned from exile in India in 1981. This was a watershed in the history of Bangladesh-Pakistan relations because when she came to power for the first time in 1996, she demanded an unconditional and official apology from Pakistan for the atrocities of 1971. In 2003 she executed Jamaat-e-Islami activists on charges of collaboration in Pakistan’s war crimes in 1971. The Pakistani protest over the executions only widened the gap.

While Bangladesh is unquestionably an Islamic State, it is difficult for any Bangladeshi political party to rely only on the Islamic card to have any special ties with Islamic Pakistan. Other factors play and have played key roles in shaping bilateral relations. Since 2009, Bangladeshi parties other than the Awami League, have been existing only on the margins. Therefore, the Awami League’s view of the liberation movement, the war and Pakistani war crimes, is the dominant narrative in Bangladesh.

Given the economic boom Bangladesh has been experiencing in the last decade, and its wide-ranging social achievements, Dhaka can now afford to be choosy in selecting its friends. Although Bangladesh’s growth rate is expected to come down from 7% to 5.5% in 2023 and it has had to go for an IMF loan of US4 4.7 billion, the country has been doing better than Pakistan across the board.

Hina Rabbani Khar with Sheikh Hasina
Writing in Business Recorder in December 2022, Bilal Hussain quotes the World Bank to say that Bangladesh’s GDP had increased from US$ 8.75 billion in 1971 to US$ 416 billion in 2021. On the other hand, Pakistan’s GDP stood at US$ 346 billion in 2021 after being ahead with US$ 10.67 billion in 1971. Bangladesh’s per capita income was US$ 2,503 – over 60% higher than Pakistan’s US$ 1,538. Its foreign exchange reserves stood at US$ 30 billion — roughly four months of import cover.

Pakistan’s reserves stand at US$ 6.7 billion — less than 1.5 months of import cover, Hussain points out.

Life expectancy in Bangladesh is 73 years against Pakistan’s 67. In Bangladesh, 96% of people have access to electricity while in Pakistan that number is 75%.

Pakistan cannot match India as a development partner for Bangladesh because India is also leapfrogging. Bangladesh and India are inter-twined in multifarious ways since Hasina came to power in 2009. While it cannot be denied that India and Bangladesh have issues between them such as river waters-sharing and slow execution of projects, and there is a vocal anti-Indian lobby in Bangladesh, Dhaka would rather have good relations with a growing India than abandon it for Pakistan which has little to offer.

India was Bangladesh’s second-largest trade partner in 2022. Bilateral trade increased to US$ 18.2 billion in 2022 as against US$10.8 billion in 2021. In contrast, Pakistan’s exports to Bangladesh were US$ 583.44 million in 2020 and its imports from Bangladesh were US 61.94 million in 2020.

While the Hasina regime will continue to insist on Pakistan’s rendering an official apology for the events of 1971, Pakistan will not oblige.

Any chance of an apology disappeared when the retiring Pakistani army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa told an invited audience in November 2022, that the army could not be blamed for the events of 1971 and that criticism of it had been “indecent” and “intolerable”. Given the dominant position of the army in Pakistan, its politicians dare not let it down by apologizing publicly.

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https://newsin.asia/will-pakistan-and-bangladesh-bury-the-hatchet/

Not including a war with india, Pakistan has FAR FAR more pressing matters to deal with right now than thinking about international relations or foreign affairs.

 

[khansaheeb]

Oh for fcuks sake who cares about Bangladesh

They are our Muslim brothers and we do care about them.

I think Pakistan should pay Bangladesh reparations for 25 years of economic exploitation, plus damages and restitution for Operation Searchlight.

It will be in 10s of billions, but Bangladesh should not let Pak get off easily till the compensation is paid. If Pakistan claims aid in the name of "climate change" or covid or earthquake the aid money should automatically be first sent to Dhaka.

You Indians taking the cow refreshments again?

 

[Destranator]

I think Pakistan should pay Bangladesh reparations for 25 years of economic exploitation, plus damages and restitution for Operation Searchlight.

It will be in 10s of billions, but Bangladesh should not let Pak get off easily till the compensation is paid. If Pakistan claims aid in the name of "climate change" or covid or earthquake the aid money should automatically be first sent to Dhaka.

Bangladesh should immediately issue the above as a $50 billion dollar loan to Pakistan. Ishaq Dar can then use it to convince IMF.

 

[bluesky]

shut the **** up you ignorant fool.

Keep your stupid opinions away from the people of my homeland

You're Just like a urge-infested, hormone fuelled pajeet

The newspaper report says Pakistan has only $3 billion of FE reserves. So, what are you going to do to save the country that we fought away?

Tough love: Pak has gone to IMF for bailouts 23 times in 75 years

"Pakistan has less than $3 billion in foreign exchange reserves today. Our reserves have never exceeded $21 billion in our history. Bangladesh has around $35 billion, India has around $600 billion and China has around $4 trillion. Since the early 1990s, Pakistan has had 11 IMF programmes...

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[Black_cats]

The newspaper report says Pakistan has only $3 billion of FE reserves. So, what are you going to do to save the country that we fought away?

Tough love: Pak has gone to IMF for bailouts 23 times in 75 years

"Pakistan has less than $3 billion in foreign exchange reserves today. Our reserves have never exceeded $21 billion in our history. Bangladesh has around $35 billion, India has around $600 billion and China has around $4 trillion. Since the early 1990s, Pakistan has had 11 IMF programmes...

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They basically don’t have anything now. They got some loan money from Saudi, UAE, China to show it on reserve to get the loan from IMF. China just gave 2 billion more loan though they asked few days back to repay the 1.5 billion usd loan payment.