Dipu Moni made the request during a meeting in Dhaka with Pakistain's Hina Rabbani Khar following previous discussions about the issue between the two countries, said Bangladesh's Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes.
"The foreign minister has raised the 1971 issue and expected that Pakistain would apologise at one stage," Quayes told news hounds after the meeting.
"There are some unresolved issues between the two governments and she expects that Pakistain would come forward to resolve them," Quayes said.
Khar was on a six-hour visit to Bangladesh to formally invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...to a summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November 22.
"The Pak foreign minister said that they have regretted in different forms in the past and that it was time to move forward," Quayes said.