Dhaka, April 29 -- Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain has said he faced humiliation for being a freedom fighter at a conference in Pakistan back in 2004.

The minister shared this experience during a discussion on the thanksgiving motion on the president's speech in parliament on Wednesday.

Hinting at the Opposition, Sakhawat said: "When you cross limits, I want to tell you 'you are Razakars, you are al-Shams and you are al-Badr.'"

Razakars, al-Shams and al-Badr were collaborators of the Pakistani occupation forces during Liberation War.

Recounting his struggle for the country in 1971, the minister warned those "who now talk of democracy and want to link Liberation War to July Uprising, and demean the independ...