Bangladesh authorities on Tuesday said that they would bring home the remains of a liberation war hero from Pakistan 35 years after he died in a plane crash. Flight Lieutenant Motiur Rahman died after a fighter plane he hijacked from a Karachi airbase crashed near the India-Pakistan border during the 1971 war.
Rahman, one of seven Bangladeshi soldiers decorated with the highest wartime gallantry award, Bir Shrestra, was buried in Karachi.
But the Bangladesh government said in a statement on Tuesday that it intended to repatriate Rahman's remains for reburial with full state honours as soon as possible. A committee headed by a top government bureaucrat had been created to oversee the return, it added.
Pakistan agreed to the proposal in March during a visit to Islamabad by Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, a senior Foreign Ministry official told AFP on the condition of anonymity.
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