Pakistan: The forgotten silence of 1971

Raza Rumi at Pak Tea House discusses the tragic events of 1971 that lead to the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan: “The truth is that we as a state and society lost our majority province after pushing its people into a situation where independence through a War of Liberation was the only choice.” He ends with: “We ought to apologize to our Bangladeshi friends, and begin a new era of honesty.”

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