Dhaka, Nov 8 Bangladesh will ask Pakistan on Friday to unconditionally apologise for the genocide of Bengalis its troops had carried out in 1971, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said on Thursday.
"We will discuss bilateral issues including all the pending issues such as unconditional apology for the atrocities that Pakistani army had committed during the War of Liberation in 1971," she told the bdnews24.com in the evening.
Her statement came a day before Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar visits Dhaka to invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the D-8 summit to be held in Islamabad.
Moni said she will place the demand during her meeting with Khar at 11 am on Friday.
The Pakistani minister is scheduled to arrive on Friday on a five-hour trip to hand over an invitation letter from Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for attending the eighth summit of D-8 countries.
The Pakistani minister was scheduled to come on Oct 25 for the same reason but it was postponed for some unknown reasons.
The other pending issues are repatriation of stranded Pakistanis and sharing of assets. Bangladesh had already taken the liabilities of Pakistani period and repaid all the debt.
Khar is due in Dhaka by a special flight at 10:15am. Foreign Secretary Mohamad Mijarul Quayes will receive her at the airport.
At 11am, she will call on Dipu Moni at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before going to Ganabhaban with the invite at 12pm.
She is expected to leave the capital at 3pm.
This is the first time a senior Pakistani minister is visiting Dhaka during the tenure of he Awami League-ruled government.
Bangladesh-Pakistan bilateral engagement in the last four years was limited to visit of Bangladesh's Education and Commerce Ministers and Speaker to Islamabad and Foreign Secretary-level official consultation in November 2010.
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