Don’t punish them
I read the letter of Mr. M. Emad, Oxford, UK, entitled "Stranded Pakistanis" published on 13 September 2007 in your newspaper. According to him the decision-makers, who have decided to recognise these people as citizens of Bangladesh have no understanding of history. I think the writer has not read the Constitution of Bangladesh which was not framed by the present caretaker government but by those freedom fighters who fought and created a new nation to establish justice, rights of the people and democracy. These people were given citizenship because they were born in this country and according to the Constitution of Bangladesh they are very much Bangladeshis, like those who were born in this country before the emergence of Bangladesh. The new generation of the Urdu speaking community has not seen the war of liberation, as they were not born at that time or were too young.
Why should they be punished for the crime they never committed?
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