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EFSAS Commentary Sun Online Desk 25th April, 2021 06:58:43 They were the same country till 1971, when the overbearance and domination of the Urdu-speaking West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) over Bengali speaking East Pakistan (Bangladesh) became so insufferable and unfeasible that it catalyzed a popular movement in Bangladesh that eventually won the country its hard-earned freedom. The benefits of that independence have found expression in most facets of Bangladesh’s development, while the truncated Pakistan has continued hurtling down the slippery slope that it began descending much before the war to liberate Bangladesh broke out. This is true also of the attitudes and the policies that the two Muslim-majority countries have chosen to adopt vis-à-vis terrorism and extremism. Bangladesh, without doubt, has had periods in its 50-year existence when it encouraged, sheltered and promoted extremists and terrorists. That is especially true of the earlier phase, when remnants of Pa

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