Bangladesh wants to resolve the issue of the 1971 war of liberation with Pakistan and strengthen relations between the two countries to ensure a democratic South Asia, Nahid Islam, the broadcasting and IT minister of the interim government, said during a meeting with the Pakistani envoy to Dhaka. Nahid Islam, a student protester who was sworn in as a minister in Bangladesh’s interim government. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar) Ties between Bangladesh and Pakistan were at an all-time low during Hasina’s tenure, especially after she put several leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on charges of war crimes during the 1971 war. ALSO READ- Bangladeshi Hindus targeted: 49 teachers forced to resign since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster The comments by Islam, one the leaders of the students’ movement that toppled the regime of former premier Sheikh Hasina last month, came in the backdrop of a series of meetings between senior players in the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus and Pakistan’s high commissioner to Bangladesh, Syed Ahmed Maroof. During the meeting with Islam on September 1, Maroof said Pakistan …