Pakistan foreign minister Ishaq Dar’s recent claim that the 1971 issue is ‘resolved’ has shocked many, given that Bangladesh has long considered a formal apology from Islamabad a minimum requirement for initiating reconciliation
As Pakistan pushes to reset its ties with Bangladesh, the issue of the 1971 genocide has come back to haunt Islamabad.
About 3 million people were massacred and thousands of women were raped by the Pakistani army and their local collaborators during the Bangladesh liberation war.
