Musharraf apology to Bangladesh
By David Blair in Islamabad
Published: 12:01AM BST 31 Jul 2002
President Pervaiz Musharraf of Pakistan took a bold step yesterday when he implicitly apologised for the atrocities that scarred Bangladesh's war for independence from his country in 1971.
Gen Musharraf's expression of "regret", the first by a Pakistani military ruler, came during an official visit to Bangladesh.
Spotify user data compromised after service hackedHis words received a mixed response, with the Bangladeshi government welcoming them but the country's opposition denouncing his gesture as inadequate.
Gen Musharraf visited a war memorial at Savar, near the capital, Dhaka, and left a handwritten note in the visitors' book.
"Your brothers and sisters in Pakistan share the pain of the events in 1971," he wrote. "The excesses committed during the unfortunate period are regretted. Let us bury the past in the spirit of magnanimity. Let not the light of the future be dimmed."
Later he repeated his regrets at an official banquet in Dhaka. Bangladesh claims that three million people died in the war of 1971 and blames the Pakistani army for countless atrocities
Musharraf apology to Bangladesh - Telegraph