PNN – In response to the current developments in Bangladesh, Pakistan expressed its solidarity with the people of this country and expressed hope that Bangladesh will return to normal as soon as possible.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network public relations statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, the government and people of this country stand with the people of Bangladesh as a sign of solidarity.
The statement said: Pakistan hopes for the immediate return of Bangladesh to a normal and peaceful situation and is confident that the resilient spirit and unity of the Bangladeshi people will lead them to a balanced future.
Islamabad and Dhaka experience tense relations after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. Pakistanis claim India’s involvement in separating Bangladesh from Pakistan’s territory, and Bangladesh also accused the rulers of Pakistan of committing war crimes against the people of Bengal.
From 1947, that is, from the time of the establishment of the independent country of Pakistan until 1971, Bangladesh was a part of the eastern territory of Pakistan, but in 1971, an independent country called Bangladesh was created.
Bangladesh protests began on July 1; When student activists at Dhaka University, the country’s largest university, violently clashed with police and government supporters.
The protests are rooted in a controversial job quota system that allocates up to 30 percent of government jobs to family members of Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, known as “freedom fighters.”
76-year-old Sheikh Hasina came to work as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 2009 and won the elections last January for the fourth time. These disturbances were unprecedented during his presidency.
The resigned prime minister of Bangladesh had called the demonstrators “terrorists”, but as the number of dead in these protests increased to more than 300 people, people attacked the prime minister’s palace and forced Sheikh Hasina to leave the country.