Bangladesh has rejected a claim by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar that unresolved issues between the two countries related to the 1971 war have already been “settled twice”. Speaking after the ministerial-level talks in Dhaka on Sunday, Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain said: “Of course I don’t agree. If we agreed, the problem would have been resolved in the way they claim, right? Our religion tells us to make a clean start and move forward together.”Bangladesh has long maintained that key issues remain unresolved. These include a formal apology for the atrocities committed by the Pakistani occupation forces during the 1971 war, when an estimated 3 million people were killed and 300,000 women raped by the Pakistani occupation forces.
