Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday said Bangladesh is assessing its relationship with Pakistan.
“Our relationship with Pakistan – we are certainly assessing it and we are thinking of what needs to be done. But, the whole issue is a continuous process,” he said.
He was speaking at the 44th anniversary programme on Indian recognition to Bangladesh at WVA Auditorium at Dhanmondi.
The minister said former Pakistan president and autocrat Parvez Mosharraf did apologise for their atrocities in 1971.
“The language [for the apology] was not that strong, but he did aplogise,” he said.
Many citizens of Pakistan including Asma Jahangir and Hamid Mir acknowledged the fact of atrocities committed in the Liberation War.
“It is of no use if they now claim that they did not do anything,” he said.
After the executions of Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Muzajid, two convicted war criminals, Pakistan issued a statement that there was no genocide in Bangladesh in 1971.
Bangladesh summoned Pakistan high commissioner in Dhaka and in retaliation Pakistan also summoned acting high commissioner of Bangladesh.
The foreign minister said assistant high commission of Bangladesh in Tripura started working from yesterday. He said, in addition to that, another deputy high commission would be opened in Guahati in Assam very soon.
Foreign service officer Shakhawat Hossain assumed the responsibility of assistant high commissioner yesterday.
Tripura is the fourth Bangladesh mission in India after New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.
The minister said Tripura, Assam and other adjacent Indian states are very important for BBIN initiative.
