Former president Asif Ali Zardari has rued remarks by the India premier in Bangladesh over the events of 1971 where he accused Pakistan of sponsoring terror and said the remarks were unwarranted. Such disgusting comments by the Indian Prime Minister are not conducive to the normalisation of relations between the two countries which is the expressed desire of the governments of Pakistan and India as well as of the over one billion peoples of the two countries, he said in a statement on Monday.
Terrorism is a common enemy of the people of the region and fighting it requires that we join hands, not point accusing fingers at one another, the former president commented.
He then said the events of 1971 formed a bitter chapter of our history and perspectives on it vary from person to person and region to region. No useful purpose will be served by opening wounds inflicted by past events from just one perspective to the exclusion of other perspectives.-PR