In May 2000 during Musharraf's visit to India, I was cornered in a live TV program in New Delhi by NDTVs Sardesai, with JN Dixit and Kuldip Nayar as my fellow panelists. They kept harping about Pakistan Army's excesses in East Pakistan in 1971 till I offered to bear their costs for travel and accommodation next time there was a hockey or cricket match in the Dhaka Stadium between India and Pakistan. They could not take up my offer because they well knew who the Bangladeshi supporters would root for.rnThis was seen to good effect when (then) PM Mian Nawaz Sharif visited the Dhaka Stadium as Bangladesh PM Hasina Wajid's guest during a India-Pakistan cricket match. The entire Dhaka Stadium was cheering the Pakistan team (opening pair Saeed Anwar and Amer Sohail were going berserk, those were the days) and rose up as one when the Pakistan PM walked into the Stadium.
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