{"id":61186,"date":"2020-07-30T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=61186"},"modified":"2020-07-30T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:03:18","slug":"pakistan-should-offer-official-apology-for-1971-genocide-momen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=61186","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan should offer official apology for 1971 genocide: Momen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dhaka: Bangladesh has demanded an official apology from Pakistan for 1971 genocide and described China as a development partner of recent past while heaping praises on \u201cmodel partnership\u201d with India amid a slew of cross-border connectivity initiatives launched by India this month.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen made these remarkes\u00a0in an interview with a local TV channel on Sunday night (July 26).<\/p>\n

Speaking to News 24 channel in Dhaka, Abdul Momen said that during his meeting with the Pakistan ambassador on July 1, he insisted that if Pakistan wanted better ties with Bangladesh it would need to accept officially the fact that Pakistan had carried out \u201cgenocide\u201d in 1971, which is still deeply painful for the Bangladeshis.<\/p>\n

This comes days after the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ignored suggestions on Kashmir when Pakistan PM Imran Khan telephoned her recently.<\/p>\n

Referring to China the minister said the country is Bangladesh\u2019s recent development partner but ties with India are \u201cclose and historical\u201d.<\/p>\n

Momen said the trade relationship with India was \u201cso strong that the business between the countries has reached $ nine billion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Earlier, he said, export from Bangladesh was marginal but it has slowly reached the $1-billion dollar mark and that this would have been a daunting task without support from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dhaka: Bangladesh has demanded an official apology from Pakistan for 1971 genocide and described China as a development partner of recent past while heaping praises on \u201cmodel partnership\u201d with India amid a slew of cross-border connectivity initiatives launched by India this month. Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen made these remarkes\u00a0in an interview with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n