IT was good to see Bangladeshi journalists acknowledge the role the Bengali leaders had played during the Pakistan Movement. Led by Mr Abdur Rehman the delegation, currently visiting here, attended a reception hosted in its honour at Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Pakistan where the speakers highlighted the need to preserve the two-nation theory that formed the basis for the creation of Pakistan. Mr Rehman praised M. M. Alam's role in defending the country during the 1965 war and said despite having separated 'we are still brothers'. The feeling is mutual. There is need to strengthen relationship between the two former wings. The best way of doing it is to exchange delegations from a cross-section of society: journalists, scholars, players, etc. This can also lead to the bolstering of mutual trade. But more than anything it would cause disappointment to a peculiar Hindu mindset that is reflected in late Indra Gandhi's observation, "We've sunk the two-nation theory in the Bay of Bengal."