India, Aug. 25 -- Bangladesh has demanded an apology for the 1971 genocide from Pakistan and even urged it to resolve long-standing historic issues during Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar's visit to the South Asian country, media reports said.

Dar has refused to apologise.

He is the senior-most Pakistani leader to visit Bangladesh in more than a decade.

During a meeting between Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain and Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar in Dhaka today, Bangladesh also called for the transfer of foreign aid allocated for the victims of the 1970 cyclone and the repatriation of stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh, reported The Business Standard.

Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain, howev...