Dhaka, Aug 25: Bangladesh’s Awami League on Monday accused the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of adopting an “anti-Liberation War” and “anti-national” stance by attempting to “Pakistanise” the nation.
This came as Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar visited Bangladesh and met with the top leadership of the interim government, as well as the major political parties.
Slamming the Yunus regime, the Awami League accused it of making “heinous” attempts to misinterpret the history of the Liberation War and to “erase its memory” from society.
“The destructive activities of these anti-national forces prove that no one except the Awami League has the capacity to protect the spirit and aspirations of the Great Liberation War of Bangladesh,” the party added.
Dar, following his meeting with the interim government’s Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain, told the reporters that Dhaka’s long-standing demand for an apology over the 1971 genocide had already been resolved twice in the past. Additionally, there was no mention of the genocide issue in Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry’s statement on the conclusion of Dar’s visit.
The 1971 Bangladeshi genocide, perpetrated by the Pakistan Army, was the ethnic cleansing of Bengalis residing in then East Pakistan during the Liberation War..
The Awami League slammed the interim government for promoting the false narrative of the Pakistani agenda to “belittle” the national struggle for independence.
“After illegally seizing state power in violation of the Constitution, the fascist Yunus clique allowed pro-Pakistan extremist communal militant groups to expand. Bangladesh began to be run under a Pakistani prescription,” it said. (IANS)
