What they say

"This is highly audacious. Pakistan can't deny the reality of 1971, nor can it interfere in our internal affairs. This is something that the government should take up seriously."

Prof Emeritus Anisuzzaman

It's unfortunate, but not unexpected from Pakistan. They're the main perpetrators of genocide in Bangladesh in 1971 and they've been living in denial mode all along.

Sultana Kamal
freedom fighter and Rights activist

They can't accept their defeat in 1971 yet. They haven't offered apology; rather from self-reproach they're raving like madmen.

Shawan Mahmud
daughter of martyr music composer Altaf Mahmud

Shame on them! It only proves that they have not become humans yet.

Ziauddin Tariq Ali
trustee, Liberation War Museum

They were born to lie. What they did was very unfair and for that we should cut all our ties with them.
As a Saarc nation, they can't interfere in the internal affairs of another Saarc nation.

Maj Gen (retd) KM Shafiullah
Chairman, Sector Commanders Forum

It's a shameless attempt by the Pakistan government to deny the worst genocide and barbarity of the 20th century. I can't just understand why the Pakistan government has tried to deny these atrocities when many of its citizens have already demanded that the Pakistan government apologise to Bangladesh for the barbarity committed by its armed forces in 1971.

Haroon Habib
freedom fighter and journalist