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The animosity between them goes back to 1971, when Bangladesh - then known as East Pakistan - launched a struggle to gain independence from Islamabad.

Bengal itself was divided between India and East Pakistan, which would later become Bangladesh.

In Kissinger's case, it's particularly hard to imagine how a man who started out as a Jewish refugee from the Nazis could be as conscienceless as he was about the slaughter in East Pakistan.

In response to a surprise victory by an opposition party in Pakistan's first democratic election, Yahya then loosed his military on the people of East Pakistan, that party's geographical base.

The 1971 fall of Dhaka in what was then East Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh after defeat by arch-enemy India has been the lowest point for Pakistan's military since 1947.