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Pakistan Is Suffering From Amnesia About Bangladesh – OpEd ( Source- Eurasia Review / Author- Syed Badrul Ahsan / South Asia Mirror)

Source- Eurasia Review Author- Syed Badrul Ahsan / South Asia Mirror Pakistan’s politicians are quite a sight these days: they are hopping mad; they are huffing and puffing. They simply have no idea what to do about Bangladesh. After all, the sovereign nation which was once their eastern province, has had the audacity to send their ageing, Bengali-speaking loyalists to the gallows one after the other. These five men who have faced justice have not merely been proven to have committed crimes against humanity in 1971. In a larger way – and that is why Pakistanis like Sartaj Aziz have gone apoplectic – the evidence against the five collaborators is also a clear reflection once again of the guilt of the state of Pakistan itself. The war crimes trials remind Sartaj Aziz of the crimes committed by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in the name of Islam, in Bangladesh. The discomfort is palpable. Of course we have always known that. Pakistan’s leaders and people have also known