Ganajagaran Mancha urges Bangladesh govt to give stern reply to Pakistan

Ganajagaran Mancha has urged the government to give a stern response to Pakistan for denying its 'complicity in committing crimes or atrocities' during Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War.

The platform, which came into being demanding death for the war criminals, has also called for severing diplomatic and business ties with Pakistan until the country accepts responsibility for the wartime genocide.
 
The Mancha has also demanded a formal apology and compensation from Pakistan.
 
In a media statement released on Tuesday, it announced a protest rally on Wednesday afternoon and a procession later that evening.
 
Pakistan on Monday summoned the acting high commissioner of Bangladesh in Islamabad, a week after Dhaka protested the former's “brazen interference” in the war crimes trials.
 
The Pakistan foreign ministry in a statement said it had informed Bangladesh's envoy that they were rejecting "the baseless and unfounded assertions of the Bangladesh Government conveyed vide its Note of 23 November 2015”.
 
Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971. In 2010 it launched the trial of those who had committed crimes against humanity while collaborating with Pakistan’s occupation forces.
 
Pakistani politicians had previously reacted to the tribunal’s verdicts. The latest official reaction came after the execution of war criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid.
 
Following Islamabad’s protest, Dhaka had summoned the Pakistan high commissioner and handed over a strongly worded protest note.

Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker in Tuesday's communiqué said Pakistan's statement was an insult to the freedom fighters and the people of Bangladesh.

"If no reaction is issued, that will be an insult to the three million martyrs."

"If the Pakistan government was civilised, then it would have taken responsibilities for the 1971 war crimes and tried 195 people identified as war criminals."