Pakistan has urged Bangladesh to let bygones be bygones with regard to atrocities committed by the Pakistani army in 1971.
| Can't imagine why hurt feelings linger ... |
| Please don't put our people on trial for all the world to see. We'd have demanded it, but our little jawan rebellion didn't quite work out as planned. |
Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit at his weekly briefing yesterday said Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni had asked Pakistan to apologize for the war crimes.
Quoting the spokesman, the Dawn, a Pak national daily, said Pakistan believes the matter was settled under the April 1974 tripartite agreement between Pakistan, India and Bangladesh in which Pakistan condemned and regretted any atrocities committed. In 2002, the then president of Pakistan had also regretted any wrongs committed in 1971, the spokesman added.
He said Pakistan gives great importance to good relations with Bangladesh, and it is better for both countries to move forward instead of being frozen in the past.
| "All those guys we killed are still dead, aren't they? Why are youse guys living in the past?" |
| "All those officers and their wives that our jawan hirelings just tortured to death are still dead, too. No reason for you to overreact -- we're all men of the world, right?" |
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