Diplomats warned against violating norms
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Urging envoys stationed in Dhaka not to violate diplomatic norms, Awami League senior parliamentarian Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim today warned that the government would go tough against them, otherwise.
“Follow your diplomatic jurisdiction...don’t interfere in the every internal affair of the country. Give up your political diplomacy. If you do it, we will have no alternative but going tough,” he told the House standing on a point of order.
Selim, a presidium member of the ruling party, began an unscheduled discussion in the House regarding a threat allegedly by al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.
After Selim, Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, JSD lawmaker Mainuddin Khan Badol, Workers Party MP Fazley Hossain Badsha, Tarikat Federation Chairman Syed Nozibul Bashar Maizbhandari took the floor and bitterly criticised al-Qaeda and BNP-Jamaat alliance.
They alleged that al-Qaeda threat for Bangladesh is part of a conspiracy against the country and the video call reflected the statements of BNP, Jamaat and Hefajat-e-Islam.
Recently Zawahiri has urged the Muslims in Bangladesh to wage an intifada (popular uprising) to confront the “crusader onslaught against Islam”. He made his appeal through an audio-visual recording.
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