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Hope for 'stranded Pakistanis'

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Some 250,000 "stranded Pakistanis" living in camps in Bangladesh have been told they can apply for citizenship, having been forced to stay in the country after it gained independence in 1971.

Younger members of the Urdu-speaking community have welcomed the offer, but many older people still want to go back to Pakistan.

Mark Dummett reports from Dhaka.

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