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Bangladesh lifts bar on IPL telecast in the country: Bangladesh Media

What the Pakistani state refuses to accept is that no ‘strategic partnership’ can compensate for - or make Bangladeshis forget - the historical memory of genocidal violence that the people of Bangladesh suffered when the military operation was launched on 25 March 1971. This memory is sacred - not just for those who suffered directly or bore witness, but it is built into the very fabric of Bangladesh as a country forged in the blood of its people. This is not an Awami League agenda. It is a Bangladesh agenda. And regardless of how Bangladeshis feel about India - the anger over its regional bullying, its hegemonic ambitions - and despite Bangladesh’s own recent tilt toward Pakistan, the scars of 1971 will continue to define them as a people and haunt their relationship with Pakistan. The people of Bangladesh need closure. And that closure can only come through a formal, sincere, and unconditional apology from Pakistan. Only then does the possibility of genuine rapprochement and reconciliation open up - and with it, space for other long-overdue conversations: the Bihari massacres, their statelessness, and the wounds that remain unacknowledged on all sides. The first step, however, belongs to Rawalpindi.