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Bangladesh
Bangladesh PM turns down Pakistan summit invitation
2012-11-14
DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina Wajed has turned down an invitation to a summit in Islamabad next week, officials said yesterday, despite a recent olive branch from the Pakistan government.
Since the Paks have yet to say anything appropriate about the last time they were in Bangladesh...
“The prime minister is not going to attend the summit,” Syed Masud Khundoker, a director-general in Bangladesh’s foreign ministry, told AFP.

PakistanÂ’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani had issued the invitation to Hasina in person last Friday on a rare visit to Bangladesh by a senior Pakistani to what was East Pakistan before it won a war for independence in December 1971.

Relations between the two sides remain extremely delicate with Moni asking Rabbani last week for Pakistan to apologies for war crimes committed by the army. HasinaÂ’s government says up to three million people were killed in the conflict.

The Daily Star, a Dhaka-based newspaper, said that policy advisors had told Hasina that it would be unwise to visit Pakistan unless Islamabad offered a formal apology to Dhaka for what it regards as “genocide”.
Posted by:Steve White

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