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‘Lovers of Pakistan’ should be punished, says Bangladesh PM

Dhaka: Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh has said that those people who are ‘lost in their love for Pakistan should be punished’, reported BD News 24. 

“The people of Bangladesh must respond to those who have been lost in their love for Pakistan. They must be punished. We must make them forget their love for Pakistan. If we cannot do it, we will cease to exist,” she was reported as saying at the gathering, which was organised by the ruling Awami League at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.

Hasina termed rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) founder Ziaur Rehman and his wife Khaleda Zia as ‘lovers of Pakistan’, saying the duo had grabbed power in the country after the killing of Sheikh Mujeeb.

“The entire history changed after ’75. Even the words ‘Pakistani occupation forces’ could not be uttered. People had to call them only ‘occupation forces’ in an effort to make them forget that the forces were Pakistani, such was the love for Pakistan,” Hasina said.

Hasina said those who came to power after 1975 never wanted the people’s fate to change.

“They did not want the country to progress. They were implementing the agenda of the Pakistani occupation forces.

“Pakistan would be happy if Bangladesh became a failed state and they (Bangladeshi rulers after 1975) wanted to make Pakistan happy,” she said.

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