Bangladesh demanded on Thursday that Pakistan apologize in full for the murder its forces committed during the independence of Pakistan in 1971. According to Prothom Alo, the neighboring country was also requested to solve a number of unresolved diplomatic issues in an effort to lay a stronger foundation for future ties.
In response, Pakistan expressed its desire to engage in discussions aimed at resolving those concerns.
Pakistan suggested that these problems be continued in the future. The meeting that took place now was supposed to be a typical event, but it was actually held in 2010, according to Bangladesh’s foreign minister Jasim Uddin.
Following a square of secretary-level discussions earlier that morning at the Padma position guest house, Uddin provided details of the day’s political activities.
He led the Bangladeshi group, and Amna Baloch, Pakistan’s foreign secretary, was on her side. Following the discussions, Baloch made courtesy visits to Md. Touhid Hossain and deputy assistant professor Muhammad Yunus. She had arrived in Dhaka the day before.
Yunus had called on Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif last year to “once and for all” overcome the lingering problems that had plagued the country since the war of 1971, arguing that doing so would help Dhaka advance in strengthening its relations with Islamabad.
He had previously demanded an explicit apology for the widespread rapes and killings committed by its army during the war as a condition for the standardization of diplomatic relations, but he had abstained from doing so.
