Dhaka protests resolution by Pak provincial assembly
Dhaka protests resolution by Pak provincial assembly
The foreign ministry today strongly protested adoption of a resolution by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Provincial Assembly of Pakistan on the conviction of the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity and genocide during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
In a diplomatic note sent to the Pakistan high commission in Dhaka, the ministry deplored the adoption of the said resolution.
“It was a brazen denial of justice for the victims of the heinous crimes committed by the convicted individuals and that the KPK Assembly chose to speak for Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami,” the foreign ministry said in the diplomatic note.
The KPK Assembly was advised not to make such sweeping, biased, misinformed and politically motivated remarks about the independent legal system of a foreign country.
By doing so, the KPK Assembly has seriously undermined its standing as a responsible, credible and representative body speaking on behalf of its constituency, the note added.
The note further stated that the resolution adopted by KPK Assembly was tantamount to direct interference in the domestic affairs of Bangladesh.
“It was deeply regretted that despite repeated overtures made to the Pakistan side, the misleading, motivated and malicious campaign against the trials of the crimes against humanity and genocide in Bangladesh continued unabated within different quarters in Pakistan,” the note further said.
The Government of Pakistan was requested to take due note of these issues.
Earlier on November 6, 2014, the foreign ministry summoned the acting high commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh and strongly protested a recent statement of its home minister on death sentence of Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami.
On December 17, 2013, the government strongly protested the resolutions adopted by the Pakistan National Assembly and the Punjab Provincial Assembly on the war crimes verdicts.