Attended this today : Beyond the Dhaka Fall - What 1971 Teaches Pakistan Today with Aitzaz Ahsan as Guest Speaker. Bangladesh gained freedom on December 16, 1971 from Pakistan. Pakistanis never acknowledged their crimes in East Pakistan neither did they really mourn that half the country was lost, the majority actually.
Nevertheless, some of the sweetest people I met abroad at university and during my career have been Bangladeshis, who somehow never displayed any bitterness despite everything.
When Aboo made Ambassador and was sent to
Ceaușescu's Romania in December 1988, guess who came to receive us at the Airport? It was the Bangladesh Ambassador, who happened to be his batch mate. So Aboo and his classmate trained together at the Foreign Office Academy when Pakistan was still one.
One of my university friends from Dhaka married a boy from Lahore.
Islamabad was basically built from hard currency earned by jute exports from East Pakistan.
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